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On this day in 1946 Irving Berlin‘s Annie Get Your Gun opened on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre, to run 1,147 performances—all of them with Ethel Merman‘s name above the title.
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Happy birthday to another brassy, tough-as-nails Rialto legend, our own Dawn Fatale.
Dan Soda (Windy City Operaman) is a Chicago native whose first visit to opera was at age 17 and Massenet’s Werther with Troyanos and Kraus. Nothing was ever the same. Opera and concert performances, recordings and video are an obsession. He prepares Parterre Box’s daily birthday and anniversary tributes. He also enjoys concerts, live theater and movies.
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