A is for Annie, Get Your Gun . Irving Berlin wrote this when he was sort-of-washed-up. It was a come-back. He had help from Rodgers and Hammerstein. There's some speculation that the help was more extensive than the surface story would suggest. Bernadette Peters won her second Tony--after a long dry spell--for a Gun revival. She maybe didn't deserve it. Her accent was very, very broad and distracting. People felt that her replacement--Reba McEntire--actually did a better job than she, BP, had done. (It pains me to type this.) I spent a fair amount of the latter half of my high school years visiting the Bernadette Peters website. She wrote quite a bit about her touring schedule, and her love for dogs. I went to NYC, ostensibly to tour a university, but really to see Ms. Peters on stage (in 1999). Years later, after the big British Petroleum spill, I was given a Bernadette shirt with her image, centered, on the front, under a tagline: "The BP who Isn't Fucking up the...