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Musical Closed 28th August 2004 | WINNER - 2003 Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical Production
WINNER - Critics Circle Theatre Award for Best Musical
|  | Anything Goes - WINNER! 2003 Olivier Award for 'Outstanding Musical Production'.
WINNER! Critics’ Circle Theatre Award for 'Best Musical'.
The first 'golden age' of American musical comedy in the 1930's 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. Cole Porter's Anything Goes will be the National's first excursion into this richly endowed territory.
Among the passengers heading for England on the luxury liner S.S. 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, who 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'. | ANYTHING GOES Closed 28th August 2004
Theatre: Drury Lane Theatre Royal
Catherine Street, London, WC2B 5JF.
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Performance Times:
Evenings: Monday to Saturday at 7.30pm
Matinees: Wednesday and Saturday at 2.30pm
Performance length: 2 hours 45 minutes approx
Closed 28th August 2004
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Stalls £51.00 - £57.00
Dress Circle £57.00
Upper Circle £26.00 - £45.00
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| | What's New | Anything Goes - Closed 28th August 2004 Musical by Cole Porter with original book by PG Wodehouse & Guy Bolton and Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse and new book by Timothy Crouse & John Weidman. Directed by Trevor Nunn with choreographer by Stephen Mear,"...There are moments of true sublimity, many provided by the choreographer Stephen Mear, who has supplied some fabulously inventive routines that find the whole company dancing up a storm... It's a night of delightfully corny gags, great songs, and wonderful performances, with the whole company giving the impression that they are having the time of their lives... it's tremendous fun." The Daily Telegraph |
Theatre Review | ...Is it as good as it was? Absolutely... The show offers three hours of pure time-suspending pleasure. Above all, it recaptures a lost era of musical comedy when the innocence of the story was countered by the sophistication of the lyrics... As tune-and-toe shows go, this is as good as it gets.
The Guardian
"...The original story by P.G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton has had two rewrites, and Trevor Nunn's buoyant production - you'd have to be a hard-hearted Scrooge not to have a good time - uses them both... Reno was written for Ethel Merman... Trevor Nutin's production has Sally Ann Triplett as Reno, a good gal with a fine personality. But she ain't no Merman... To fill the National's vast Olivier stage, we have big amplified sound, big cheesy grins, and big tap dance sequences. I am no slouch at being a grouch but I still had a great time, and so will you
The Daily Mail |
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