Annie Get Your Gun in Jerusalem

Program notes for a community theater group's production of Annie Get Your Gun apologized for the play's depiction of Native Americans and women. I have a feeling there were a few changes in the script. Although they made refernces to squaws, characters addressed these women winth honorifics: Mrs. Littlefoot. Sitting Bull was the most admirable character, and I wondered whether the original script had him reading Annie's letter to her while she was illiterate and generally being the wise old man.

The character most maligned was Frank Butler, protrayed as an attractive male chauvanist pig. The accounts I've read say the real Frank recognized Annie's value to the performance from the start and had a relationship with her whose equality was remarkable for the time.

Copyright 2015 by Jane S. Fox