Show Plot Annie Get Your Gun

Authors: Irving Berlin, Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields 

Time Period: Turn of the Twentieth Century

Summary: 

Annie Get Your Gun is a classic musical featuring music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. It is a highly fictionalized version of the real-life romance between sharpshooters Annie Oakley and Frank E. Butler. When naive, backwoods tomboy Annie joins Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, she becomes a star, but her professional success and unmatched marksmanship threaten her romance with the show's leading man, Frank.