ANNIE GET YOUR GUN now playing at the WELK RESORT SAN DIEGO

(PRWEB) September 3, 2003

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

     September 1, 2003

     The WELK RESORT THEATRE presents San Diego’s very own Joy Yandell as Annie Oakley

in Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun, also starring, direct from

the national tour, Andrew Husmann as Frank Butler. Featuring John Richard Petersen as Charlie Davenport, Susan Bell as Dolly Tate, John Schull as Colonel Buffalo Bill and Jeffrey Arnold Wolf as Chief Sitting Bull. With direction and choreography by Jon

Engstrom and a brand new book by Peter Stone (Titanic), based on the

original by Herbert and Dorothy Fields.

     Annie Get Your Gun is the highly fictionalized story of Annie Oakley,

one of the world's most famous sharpshooters. The original Broadway

production starred Ethel Merman in the title role and Bernadette Peters in

the recent Broadway revival. The story celebrates Annie's stormy,

competitive relationship with Frank Butler, a dashing vaudeville marksman,

as they tour the country as the stars of "Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show."

     With a score written by legendary composer Irving Berlin, Annie Get

Your Gun features some of the best songs ever written for the musical

theater stage, including: "There's No Business Like Show Business," "I Got

the Sun in the Morning," "Doin' What Comes Natur'lly," "You Can't Get a Man

With a Gun," "They Say It's Wonderful," and "Anything You Can Do."

     This hoop-hollerin' musical adventure is directed and choreographed by

Drama-Logue and Robby Award winner Jon Engstrom. The creative team for Annie

Get Your Gun also includes new book material by Peter Stone, Musical

Direction by Justin Gray, Set Design by Andrew Hammer, Costume Design by

Ambra Wakefield and David Heckman, lighting design by Jennifer Edwards,

sound design by Patrick Hoyny and Sean Coogan is the producer.

     Annie Get Your Gun plays Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday evenings at 8

p.m. with matinees being performed Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday

and Sunday at 1:45 p.m. Theatre tickets are available with or without the

lunch or dinner buffet. For tickets and information call 1-888-802-7469 or

760-749-3448 or visit their website http://www.welkresort.com.

     PHOTOS COURTESY OF WELK RESORT THEATRE

     #1: Joy Yandell as Annie Oakley and Andrew Husmann as Frank Butler

perform to standing ovations nightly in ANNIE GET YOUR GUN at the WELK

RESORT THEATRE through November 8, 2003.

     #2: Jeffrey Arnold Wolf as Chief Sitting Bull, Susan Bell as Dolly

Tate and Orange County's John Richard Petersen as Charlie Davenport in ANNIE

GET YOUR GUN playing at the WELK RESORT THEATRE through November 8, 2003.