Anything Goes
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, P.G. Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russell Crouse
Cast
Billy Crocker | STEPHEN ROUXEL |
Elisha J. Whitney | MICHAEL SPROULE |
Hope Hardcourt | EMILY OLIVER |
MoonFace Martin | ANDY BEACOM |
Mrs. Harcourt T. Harcourt |
SUSAN VENOSA |
Reno Sweeny |
LYDIA PUGH |
Sir Evelyn Oakleigh | ETHAN HITCHON |
Synopsis
Anything Goes is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The original book was a collaborative effort by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse, heavily revised by the team of Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse.
The story concerns the madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London.
Now Billy Crocker is a stowaway in love with heiress Hope Harcourt, who is engaged to Lord Evelyn Oakleigh. Meanwhile nightclub singer Reno Sweeney and Moonface Martin aid Billy in his quest to win Hope.
The musical introduced such songs as Anything Goes, You’re the Top, Friendship, Blow Gabriel Blow and I Get a Kick Out of You.