Anything Goes - The View

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 madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London. Billy Crocker is a stowaway in love with heiress Hope Harcourt, who is engaged to Lord Evelyn Oakleigh. Nightclub singer Reno Sweeney and Public Enemy #13 Moonface Martin aid Billy in his quest to win Hope. The musical introduced such songs as "Anything Goes," "You're the Top," and "I Get a Kick Out of You."

Since its 1934 debut at the Neil Simon Theatre (at the time known as the Alvin) on Broadway, the musical has been revived several times in the United States and Britain and has been filmed twice. The musical has long been a popular choice for school and community productions.

A revival of the 1987 Broadway rewrite opened on April 7, 2011, produced by the Roundabout Theatre Company. Previews began on March 10, 2011. This production is directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall with musical supervision by Rob Fisher, dance arrangements by David Chase and designs by Derek McLane and Martin Pakledinaz. This revival retains much of the 1987 orchestrations by the late Michael Gibson with some additions from arranger Bill Elliott.

The show's cast includes Sutton Foster as Reno Sweeney, Joel Grey as Moonface Martin, Laura Osnes as Hope Harcourt, Jessica Walter as Evangeline Harcourt, Colin Donnell as Billy Crocker, Adam Godley as Lord Evelyn Oakleigh, John McMartin as Elisha Whitney, Jessica D. Stone as Erma, Robert Creighton as Purser, Andrew Cao as Luke, Raymond J. Lee as John, and Walter Charles as the Captain. The production has been received generally very well by the critics and has received a total of 9 Tony Award nominations and 10 Drama Desk Award nominations, including Best Actress in a Musical, Best Director of a Musical and Best Revival of a Musical. The production was originally scheduled to run through July 31, 2011, but due to "enthusiastic" reviews the run was extended until January 8, 2012.

On a side note, the song "Anything Goes" is played on Galaxy News Radio, a fictional radio station, in the post-apocalyptic video game Fallout 3.

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[upthereinlightsillbe]

so used to sutton with the black hair an flapper style..

[mrpianokid1994]

Haha!! Whoopie's jump!! Hahah.

[TheatreGrove]

CAMERA MAN! Too many close-ups! I got motion sickness!

[jpbball12]

4:22 lol gotta <3 whoopie!!

[MissTricultural]

i love whoopi XD hahahaa

[tdstar21]

Like whoopi said, "go see the damn show" lol

[mmbr01rrf]

@girlbeautiful777 The ENTIRE production is what you must consider not just You Tube clips from performances that have altered stagings for TV presentation.

[mmbr01rrf]

@mmbr01rrf * used 'to"*  sry

[mmbr01rrf]

@girlbeautiful777 The Revival production IS the '87 Book. Your used all of the other stagings that stuck in songs from OTHER Porter productions.

[PPSTrailers]

Amidst everything people are saying about this production versus any other, I'm really just glad that there is a revival now, to bring back public consciousness about this fantastic show. A year ago, I did this show and we did not make a profit. Now people are telling me they wished they had seen it.