Saturday, May 31, 2014

More Annie Oakley #5


3 comments:

Chic Silber said...


14 years ago I worked on the
revival of "Annie Get Your Gun"
on Broadway that starred
Bernadette Peters & Tom Wopat

I designed a self supporting
trapeze rigging that flew in
I taught 3 of the dancers to
climb a web to reach it & then
to build enough of a swing to
hang by their knees pull 2 six
shooters from their gunbelt &
mimic shooting out balloons
mounted at the perimeter of a
of a large revolving turntable
The balloons were lit from below
& burst remotely on musical cues
The girls (1 at a time) were as
doubles for Bernadette

klsdad said...

Give me Ethel!!

klsad

Chic Silber said...


Sorry Dad but she's still dead

Ms Zimmerman certainly left her

mark on every production she did

It made it very difficult if not

impossible for anybody to follow

her in any of her roles

Not too many of us left who stll

remember her except from film