Bernadette Peters was the last person to originate the role of Annie Oakley in a Broadway revival, for which she won a Tony award. This production turned out to be the longest running production of the show ever. Peters said in an NY interview she had wanted to play this role for years, given the bad press that surrounded the Betty Hutton movie version from the very beginning. This included the loss of Frank Morgan, the releasing of Judy Garland and Busby Berkeley , and the record-breaking royalty payments resulting from not hiring any of the New York production performers, including the refusal to work with Ethel Merman. Merman's own failed attempt to revive the show on Broadway, where she then played Annie more than 20 years older than in her first production, led certain NY producers to avoid revivals of the show for some time.

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