Irving Berlin News

When songwriter Irving Berlin died in 1989 at 101, Haley Swindal was 3. She grew up loving the old standards, not knowing how many of the wonderful songs she loved were written by Mr.

'Annie, in short, is an agreeable evening on the town.' enlarge A good professional Broadway musical.

The Harvard Friends of the Arts presents "Irving Berlin: The Voice of Everyman," featuring vocalists Bobbi Carrey and Will McMillan with Doug Hammer on piano.

Eleven pieces on a New York theme, to follow up last year's sparkling Hits by Brits album.

Annie Oakley wasn't just good with her guns. She was 'feisty' and 'a charismatic go-getter,' says Madison Morris, 17, Gibson County High School senior who's playing the role Nov.

"Annie Get Your Gun" was written in 1946 by Irving Berlin and was the very first Broadway show to run for over 1000 performances.

Johnny Mercer is the subject of a biopic on TCM that shows why the songwriter belongs among the greatest of the golden age.

Irving Berlin's "Annie Get Your Gun" is coming to the Francis Wilson Playhouse Wednesday, Nov.

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THERE'S no business like show business', runs the classic refrain in Irving Berlin's score to his 1946 Broadway musical Annie Get Your Gun, and the new production of that tunefully terrific show at London's Young Vic is doing business like no show this theatre has had before, opening to its highest advance sale yet.

Those who like musicals will know that Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun has one of the great scores.

I don't like much about Kansas City but I'm damn sure that the Dave Stephens Jazz Circus at Jardine's just might be the best thing coming to town this weekend.

The evening generates a certain degree of warmth at moments, so I didn't have what you would call a bad time though, given the following list of objections, this must count as quite an achievement.

A Young Vic presentation of a musical in two acts, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin, book by Herbert and Dorothy Fields, with additional dialogue by April de Angelis.

Jane Horrocks, front, plays Annie Oakley as a ragamuffin and delivers Berlin's songs with the same accuracy as her marksmanship Photograph: Tristram Kenton Irving Berlin's great musical has been marginalised of late for obvious reasons: its apparently patronising attitude to Native Americans and its dubious sexual politics.

When DeSoto Central High School's new production of the Irving Berlin musical "Annie Get Your Gun" opened Thursday night, longtime supporters of the school's award-winning theater program may have noticed some unfamiliar faces in the show's sprawling 30-member cast.

BOOTLEG FILES 305: 'Annie Get Your Gun' . LAST SEEN: In its one-and-only 1957 telecast.

Canadian organ/piano wizards Dorothy Watson and Hal Logan will be back at the stage of the Mount Baker Theatre in Bellingham this Sunday with another scintillating revue of 20th century musical gems.

"Carnival," "Annie Get Your Gun" and " How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" will play Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam in 2010.

"I've met everybody I've ever wanted to meet," says Richard Turk, co-owner of the Colony Record and Radio Center since 1986.