Anything Goes - 1988 Tony Awards

Patti Lupone with the 1987 revival cast in Anything Goes on the Tony Awards.

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."

For the 1987 Broadway revival, John Weidman and Timothy Crouse (Russel's son) updated the book and re-ordered the musical numbers, using Cole Porter songs from other Porter shows, a practice which the composer often engaged in.The music was rescored for a 16-piece swing band, in the style of early Benny Goodman, instead of the earlier 28-piece orchestrations. This production opened at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, in Lincoln Center, on October 19, 1987, and ran for 784 performances. With direction by Jerry Zaks and choreography by Michael Smuin, it starred Patti LuPone as Reno Sweeney, Howard McGillin as Billy, Bill McCutcheon as Moonface, and Anthony Heald as Lord Evelyn. It was nominated for ten Tony Awards (including LuPone, Heald and McGillin), winning for Best Revival of a Musical, Best featured actor (McCutcheon), and Best Choreography. The production also won the Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Revival of a Musical and LuPone won the Outstanding Actress award. Leslie Uggams and Linda Hart were replacement Renos.

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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[Amy Rgoo]

I love the 1988 version's sound but the 2011 version's chorography

[Janay Caponi]

I listen to this every morning

[szqsk8]

Just what I needed this morning to get myself up and going!

[ValtronW]

This woman is a powerhouse!

[skpdoodle]

I saw this production and it was amazing!

[markz9783]

Lupone sang it with respect to how Cole Porter wrote it, whereas Sutton just sang it.

[Jayde Spencer]

love her!

[AlainaHoleman]

I like Sutton Foster better, but this is also good

[hswatnik]

can watch it a 1000 times!

[connor cox]

Brilliant carnt wait to see it on saturday

[Andres Perez]

got this from fallout 3

[sestagodono]

maybe not in general, but in 'Our' opinion, she is much better than Sutton in this song