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Anything Goes (1962 off-Broadway cast)

Anything Goes

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"Anything Goes" is a song written by Cole Porter for his 1934 musical of the same name. Many of the lyrics include humorous references to figures of scandal and gossip from the high society of the Great Depression.

Opened
1934
Performances
420
Type
Musical
Era
Early
Music: Cole PorterLyrics: Cole PorterBook: Guy Bolton & P.G. Wodehouse

Productions4 on Broadway

1934 Alvin Theatre Original. November 21, 1934 · Howard Lindsay 420 performances
1987 Revival Theatre not recorded. October 19, 1987 784 performances
2002 Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival. April 1, 2002 · Robert Longbottom 1 performances
2011 Stephen Sondheim Theatre Revival. April 7, 2011 · Kathleen Marshall 521 performances

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.

Licensing 4 entries

US Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark available
US Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark available
UK Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark available
UK Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark available

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In the literature54 passages

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. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p95

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 book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p387

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). book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p112

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. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p112

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.” book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p112

Ethel Merman and chorus belt out Cole Porter's rousing "Blow, Gabriel, Blow" in Anything Goes (1934). Square complemented the most insufferable crush, confusion, and amiable uproar Fifty-second Street has ever known. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p288

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