EXCITEMENT is beginning to mount around Malvern’s Festival Theatre due to the impending arrival of a musical show that will hit the town with all guns blazing.

It’s a major new production of the Tony award-winning version of Irving Berlin’s classic musical, Annie Get Your Gun, which will ride into town for a week-long run from Tuesday, July 29.

The show will star Emma Williams as Annie Oakley, Jason Donovan as Frank Butler and Norman Pace as Buffalo Bill.

A star of stage and screen, and having performed on the musical theatre stage across the globe, Jason Donovan has appeared in a number of hit musicals including Priscilla - Queen of the Desert, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, The Sound of Music and War of the Worlds.

Now he will appear as Frank Butler in this new version of the classic Broadway smash hit.

He will be joined by Emma Williams as Annie Oakley. She is the twice Olivier nominated star of Chitty Chitty. Bang Bang and Love Story, while her other credits include Sunset Boulevard and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

Jason and Emma will be joined by the much loved comedian-cum-actor Norman Pace as Buffalo Bill, who most recently starred the West End production of Chicago.

With timeless classic songs including There’s No Business Like Show Business and Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better, Annie Get Your Gun tells the legendary story of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show’s female sharpshooter, Annie Oakley and her romance with fellow sharpshooter, Frank Butler.

When Buffalo Bill’s show comes to town, it only takes one glance for sharp-shooting country girl Annie Oakley to fall head over heels for its star marksman, Frank Butler. Both have truly met their match, revealing their competitive natures as they vie for best shot – and each other’s hearts.

Jason Donovan said; "I've been very lucky in having some great roles to get my teeth into in the past, but now having the chance to star in the UK premiere production of this award winning version of such a classic musical is very exciting.

“I'm very much looking forward to performing such brilliant songs and appearing alongside a truly great cast as we bring the Wild West to theatres across the country."