- Description
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Anything Goes [theatrical performance]
- Title
- Anything Goes [Theatrical Performance]
- Published/Created
- 1934-11-21
- Genre
- Theatrical Performance
- Venue
- Alvin Theater
- Abstract
- A musical comedy in two acts, 9 scenes. book by Buy Bolton, P.G. Wodehouse. Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter. Staged by Howard Lindsay. Dances by Robert Alton. Opened 21 November 1934 at the Alvin Theatre, moved 30 September 1935 to the 46th Street Theatre, and closed 16 November 1935 after 420 performances.
18 Reno's Angels
The season's biggest musical hit, was more than just the runaway smash of the year. Designed to be pure entertainment, it succeeded sterlingly. It recounted the adventures of a group of shipwrecked passengers when the cruise liner Morro Castle burned off Asbury Park, killing 125. It opened with Reno Sweeney (Ethel Merman), a former evangelist, confessing she gets a kick out of Billy Crocker (William Gaxton). Donald Oenslager's stylishly contemporary sets included a triple-tiered view of the liner's decks allowing an excellent exposure for bathing-suited chorus girls as they tapped away to Cole Porter's tunes. The show's director was Howard Lindsay. - Source
- Bordman, Gerald: American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle. New York: Oxford University Press (1992).
Last Updated: 12-16-2015