Anything Goes

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Musical Comedy Opened 7 October 2003, Closed 28 August 2004

Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Catherine Street, London

Trevor Nunn's award winning revival of Cole Porter's classic musical Anything Goes - first seen at The National Theatre - and now at The Theatre Royal Drury Lane!

Among the passengers heading for England on the luxury liner SS American are Reno Sweeney, a sometime celebrity evangelist turned nightclub entertainer and Lord Oakleigh, a wealthy English aristocrat, accompanied by his debutante fiancée, Hope Harcourt, her protective mother and Wall Street millionaire, Eli Whitney. Less legally on board are the stowaway Billy Crocker, desperately pursuing Hope, and Moonface Martin, Public Enemy Number Thirteen, desperately seeking the kind of notoriety enjoyed by Snake Eyes Johnson, whom the FBI believe to be making the trip in disguise.

The fabulous tune-filled, dance-peppered score includes I Get A Kick Out of You, You're The Top, It's De-Lovely, Blow, Gabriel, Blow, You'd Be So Easy To Love, All Through The Night and the galvanic title number Anything Goes, which in both music and lyric so captures the spirit of the age.

The first golden age of American musical comedy in the 1930s produced a crop of masterworks from the Gershwins, Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin and Cole Porter. Their content was intentionally and exuberantly light-hearted, with farcical plots concerning highly satirised characters, but they nonetheless presented musical scores of exquisite sophistication and elegance.

Winner of the 2002 Critics' Circle Award for 'Best Musical' and the 2003 Laurence Olivier Award for 'Outstanding Musical Production'.

"Trevor Nunn's revival of Cole Porter's 1934 musical Anything Goes is terrific fun. In the words of a Porter song borrowed from elsewhere, it's delightful, delicious, delovely - and, which is part of its charm, delirious, deloopy and a bit delunatic, too" The Times

"To adapt one of the lyrics, Nunn's production is de-licious, de-lightful, de-lovely - and de-finitive" The Independent

"A witty, champagne drenched revival" The London Evening Standard

"A headily enjoyable show. Cole Porter's 1934 classic takes us back to the happy days of musical comedy" The Guardian

The following CDs are available to buy online from amazon.co.uk in the UK:
Anything Goes Original London Cast 2003
Reflections From Broadway John Barrowman's solo CD
Anything Goes Sally Ann Triplett's solo CD