Souvenir typescript on an off-white 8.5 x 11 sheet of erasable bond paper, signed in black ink “Richard Rodgers.” An excerpt from Rodgers’s book Musical Stages regarding the casting of Annie Get Your Gun. In part: “I had never worked with Ethel Merman before Annie Get Your Gun. There was no question that she was ‘the star,’ but this was an innate part of her personality and had nothing to do with anything she said or did. Throughout her entire association with the show she was totally dependable and disciplined. I suppose I’ve accomplished as much as I ever dreamed of in the theatre, but the one thing I’ve missed was hearing Ethel Merman belt out one of my songs clear up to the second balcony…. Annie scored what the press, in near unison, liked to call a bull’s-eye. But how could it have been otherwise? It was a bull’s-eye from the moment Doroth [sic] and Herb walked into our office with the idea of Ethel playing Annie.” Mild handling wear and some very faint wrinkling and soilng to margins, otherwise fine condition. RRAuction COA.
