Following a hit run at the New York State Theatre and a national tour, Ethel Merman returned to Broadway as Annie Oakley in a revival of Annie Get Your Gun, playing the same role she originated 20 years earlier. The show opened September 21, 1966, at the Broadway Theatre.
In honor of the revival, composer Irving Berlin wrote a new song for the musical called "Old Fashioned Wedding," and according to the New York Times, it stops the show with Merman having to do "a minimum of four encores of the song at each performance."
The revival was produced by Music Theatre of Lincoln Center, for which Richard Rodgers served as president and producing director.
Flip through photos of rehearsals below:
Dorothy Fields, Richard Rodgers, and Ethel Merman
Ethel Merman, Irving Berlin, and Dorothy Fields
Irving Berlin and Ethel Merman
Ethel Merman and David Manning
Richard Rodgers and Irving Berlin
Bruce Yarnell and Ethel Merman
Richard Rodgers, Irving Berlin, and Ethel Merman
Richard Rodgers, Ethel Merman, Irving Berlin, and Dorothy Fields
Robert Russell Bennett and Ethel Merman
Annie Get Your Gun Playbill - Nov 1966
Jerry Orbach, Benay Venuta, and Harry Bellaver
Ethel Merman
Bruce Yarnell and Ethel Merman
Bruce Yarnell, Ethel Merman, Rufus Smith, and Jerry Orbach
David Manning and Ethel Merman
Ethel Merman and Bruce Yarnell
