The run closed November 16, 1935
- Opened
- November 21, 1934
- Closed
- November 16, 1935
- Performances
- 420
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Neil Simon Theatre
Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 20th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Anything Goes 3 more that season
| 1987 | Revival Revival | 784 perf. |
| 2002 | Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival · Robert Longbottom | 1 perf. |
| 2011 | Stephen Sondheim Theatre Revival · Kathleen Marshall | 521 perf. |
Who was in it61 named
May Abbey
Kay Adams
William Barry
Chet Bree
Norma Butler
Billy Curtis
Edward Delbridge
Lola Dexter
Florence Earle
Enez Early
Maurice Elliott
Neal Evans
Paul Everton
Charlie Fang
Marjorie Fisher
Helen Folsom
Stuart Fraser
David Glidden
Ruth Gomley
Irene Hamlin
Maurine Holmes
Renee Johnson
Evelyn Kelly
Irene Kelly
John C King
Leoda Knapp
Doris Maye
Richard Nealy
Marquita Nicholai
Lillian Ostrom
Jackie Paige
Mary Philips
Del Porter
Pacie Ripple
Cornelia Rogers
Ruth Shaw
Eleanore Sheridan
Marshall Smith
Dwight Snyder
Ethel Sommerville
William Stamm
Frances Stewart
Drucilla Strain
The Stylists
Val Vestoff
Finette Walker
John Walsh
Richard Wang
Harry Wilson
12 of these 61 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 49 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Howard Lindsay
- Choreographer
- Robert Alton
- Producer
- Vinton Freedley
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Around this production
The original plot involved a shipwreck, but the SS Morro Castle disaster happened just before opening, so the book was hastily rewritten in two weeks.
- It may have been created out of tragedy, but Anything Goes (the title was chosen to indicate the desperation with which the show was put together) turned out to be the fourth longest running musical of the Thirties as well as one of the decade’s most durable attractions. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 95
- Alton, Robert Anything Goes By Jupiter DuBarry Was a Lady Hooray for What! Leave It to Me! Life Begins at 8:40 Me and Juliet Panama Hattie Show Is On, The Too Many Girls Ziegfeld Follies Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 387
- Though still taking place on shipboard, the new story eliminated the bomb scare but retained the leading characters of the original plot: nightclub singer Reno Sweeney (Merman), her chum Billy Crocker (Gaxton) who stows away to be near Hope Harcourt (Bettina Hall), the debutante he loves, and Moon-Face Mooney (Moore). Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 112
- Anything Goes (the title was chosen to indicate the desperation with which the show was put together) turned out to be the fourth longest running musical of the Thirties as well as one of the decade’s most durable attractions. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 112
- Porter’s score, considered his best to date, included three Merman trademarks — “I Get a Kick Out of You,” “You’re the Top” (a duet with Gaxton), and “Blow, Gabriel, Blow.” Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 112
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for Anything Goes at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.