Sean C. Morgan
Six Sweet Home residents are performing in the cast and orchestra for the musical “Annie Get Your Gun,” planned for this weekend in Lebanon.
Performances are at 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, with a 2 p.m. matinee on Saturday, in the Lebanon High School Auditorium. Admission is $5 for seniors and students. Regular admission is $8.
The play is produced by the Lebanon Association for Theater Arts, which formed three years ago to raise funds for a new sound system for the LHS auditorium, said founder Terri Krebs. The association kept going to continue supporting LHS performing arts.
The association is now renovating the auditorium, Krebs said.
“Annie Get Your Gun” is the story of the competition – and romance – between Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show sharpshooters Annie Oakley and Frank Butler, Krebs said. These are historical characters, but the musical is a “cute little” fiction about how their story unfolded.
The play consists of two acts lasting a little more than two hours, Krebs said, although the exact running time remained unknown last week.
“We’ve worked on a lot of pieces and put things together,” she said, but they had yet to run it all the way through as it will be performed.
“We’re doing really well,” Krebs said. “This is the third year we’ve done this. We’ve gotten a little smarter, faster and organized.”
The musical includes 40 cast members and 23 orchestra members, Krebs said.
Producers are association founders Krebs, Patty Crenshaw and Kevin Wong.
The effort has snowballed over the past three years, Krebs said, and people are continually contacting the association with help.
Sets are designed by Steve Quigley, a retired art teacher. Hair Express is doing the performers’ hair before the shows. Tori Harvey, a graduate in dance from Oregon State University, is doing choreography. Dennis Robins, a retired painter, is painting the auditorium.
“We live in a community that’s pretty awesome, that steps up to the plate,” Krebs said.