West End and Broadway star Rachel Tucker is to steer the forged in a particular one-night solely live performance of smash hit musical Annie Get Your Gun on the world-famous London Palladium.
Acclaimed main girl Rachel Tucker (Come From Away, Wicked, We Will Rock You) will star because the legendary sharpshooter Annie Oakley within the first-ever UK live performance manufacturing of Irving Berlin’s traditional musical on Friday, April 7.
Rachel’s efficiency will mark her return to the West End after starring as Annette / Beverley Bass in Come From Away on Broadway, a task she originated within the London manufacturing, receiving greatest supporting actress nominations for the 2019 Olivier Awards and 2020 WhatsOnStage Awards.
Joining Rachel will likely be star of stage and display, Julian Ovenden as love curiosity Frank Butler. Julian has just lately starred as Emile de Becque within the UK tour of South Pacific, and has featured in TV dramas The Crown, Bridgerton and Downton Abbey.
When Buffalo Bill’s Wild West present involves city, it solely takes one look for sharp-shooting nation lady Annie Oakley to fall head over heels for its star marksman, Frank Butler. Both have actually met their match, as the 2 compete and flirt, with loads of ups and downs alongside the best way.
Celebrating this fictionalised model of the real-life sharp-shooter Annie Oakley and her romance with Frank Butler, Annie Get Your Gun boasts a rating of Irving Berlin classics together with ‘There’s No Business Like Show Business’, ‘I Got Lost In His Arms’, ‘I Got The Sun In The Mornin’’, ‘Anything You Can Do,’ and ‘They Say It’s Wonderful’.
Annie Get Your Gun first opened on Broadway in 1946 after which within the West End a yr later in 1947. Both productions have been successful and the Oscar-winning movie based mostly on the musical adopted in 1950.
A live performance manufacturing was staged in New York in 2015 however Annie Get Your Gun would be the first time a live performance manufacturing has ever been staged within the UK.