[NEohioPAL]Hudson Players to Open Annie Get Your Gun

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Did you know Annie Oakley once hit 943 out of 1000 flying balls in a rapid
fire demonstration?

Did you know she was born and died in Ohio?

Amazing woman, amazing show.

Come the Hudson Players perform the recent broadway revival version of
"Annie Get Your Gun".
Performances: February 4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19, 20, 25 & 26.
Curtain Time: 8 p.m. (February 20th is a 2 p.m. matinee)
Call 330-655-8522 for reservations
More details and real history below:

Hudson Players “Annie Get Your Gun” Set to Open This Weekend

Show Tells Story of the Real Annie Oakley who had Many Ohio Connections

HUDSON, OH January 21, 2005 – The Hudson Players production of Annie Get
Your Gun (Revival Version) is set to open this Friday, February 4, 2005 at
Barlow Community Center located on Oviatt Street in Hudson, across from the
Hudson Fire Department. The award winning Irving Berlin musical, tells the
story of Annie Oakley, a true-life western hero who was both born and died
in Ohio. It is directed by Allen White.

According to her biography, Annie Oakley was a remarkable woman by any
right. Her mother fell on hard times when she was young and Annie used her
father’s old Kentucky rifle to hunt small game to sell. She was so
successful, she paid off her mother’s mortgage at the age of 15. She also
befriended Chief Sitting Bull (who defeated Custer at Little Big Horn) who
adopted her as his daughter and gave her the name “Little Sure Shot” (she
was only five feet tall). She was active in the woman’s suffrage movement,
in raising money for the Red Cross (the family dog, Dave, became the Red
Cross Dog, by sniffing out donations of cash hidden in handkerchiefs) and
also offered to form a women’s regiment during both the Spanish American War
and WWI (both offers were refused). Her story lives on in books museums and
the many productions of the show Annie Get Your Gun.

The show has been called “Irving Berlin’s greatest achievement in the
theater,” and it follows Annie’s story as she rises to fame by defeating
famed sharp shooter Frank Butler (whom she defeated and married in real
life). She betrays that she is an uncultivated female who only knows to do
that which comes naturally to her – shooting things. Frank is a big,
sentimental fellow who is attracted only to sweet and demure girls –
preferably without guns. Annie finds Frank appealing, but seems to be a bit
too independent for him. They do have one thing in common though, show
business, and along with Buffalo Bill, Sitting Bull, Pawnee Bill and other
great characters from history and beyond, they provide a great time for all
and a little bit of history.

Annie Oakley’s feats in real life were as legendary as her feats in the
show. At thirty paces she shot a dime from between her husbands thumb and
forefinger with a .22 rifle. Once she hit 943 out of 1000 flying balls in a
rapid fire demonstration. Annie died in Greenville, Ohio on November 3,
1926. Frank Butler died eighteen days later. They are buried side by side,
and the show lives on to tell the story of how they met and thrilled
audiences.

Performances of Annie Get Your Gun will be February 4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19,
20*, 25 & 26 at 8 pm at the Barlow Community Center. Curtain time is 8 p.m.
with the February 20th performance being a special 2 p.m. matinee. Tickets
are $12, with student, senior and group discounts available.

Opening night (February 4th) attendees will also be invited out after the
show to Aladdin’s of Hudson (in the new First and Main area) for a reception
after the show featuring complimentary appetizers and a chance to meet the
cast and crew. Tickets can be purchased in advance at the Learned Owl
Bookstore on Main St in Hudson or reserved by call 330-655-8522. More
information on the production and the rest of the Hudson Players season is
available via the Hudson Players website (www.hudsonplayers.com) or by
calling 330-655-8522.

Next up for the group will be a production of I Hate Hamlet. Auditions will
be held Sunday and Monday, March 6 & 7, at 7 p.m. at the Barlow Community
Center, with the show scheduled to run May 6, 7, 13, 14, 20 & 21. The Hudson
Players are also holding a 60th Anniversary Celebration on March 5 at the
American Legion Hall in Hudson, featuring an interactive murder mystery,
dinner and dancing. Tickets are $48 and the event is open to the community.
Call 330-655-8522 for more information or 330-650-2333 for 60th anniversary
reservations.

The Hudson Players are one of the area’s longest running community theaters
and are members of the Hudson Chamber of Commerce, The Ohio Community
Theatre Association and the American Association of Community Theater. The
Hudson Players are a non-profit 501-C-3 organization.

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