Anything Goes

1954 Television Production

Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Original Book by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse
Written for television by Herbert Baker

Broadcast by NBC-TV on February 28, 1954 on The Colgate Comedy Hour 
Produced by Jule Styne
Executive Producer: Leland Hayward
Production Staged by David Alexander
Directed by Sid Smith
Musical Director: Al Goodman
Vocal Supervision: Eliot Daniel
Production Designed by Furth Ullman
Orchestrations by Buddy Bregman and Nelson Riddle

Cast 

Ethel Merman (Reno Sweeney), Frank Sinatra (Harry Dane), Bert Lahr (Moonface), Sheree North (Bonnie), Norman Abbot (Radio Announcer), Nestor Paiva (Dr. Henry T. Dobson), Arthur Gould Porter (Sir Evelyn Oakleigh), Barbara Morrison (Mrs. Wentworth), Lou Krugman (Purser), and Al Goodman's Orchestra

Musical Selections

• Overture
• "Anything Goes" - Reno
• "You Do Something to Me" - Harry & Reno [from Fifty Million Frenchmen]
• "Anything Goes" (reprise) - Reno & Chorus
• "I Get a Kick Out of You" - Reno
• "I Get a Kick Out of You" (reprise) - Harry
• "You're the Top" - Reno & Harry
• "Just One of Those Things" - Harry [from Jubilee]
• "Just One of Those Things" (reprise)- Reno
• "Blow, Gabriel, Blow" - Reno
• "All Through the Night" - Harry
• "Friendship" - Moonface & Reno [from Du Barry Was a Lady]
• "I Get a Kick Out of You" (reprise) - Reno & Harry
• Finale ("Anything Goes") - Chorus
• Encore ("Anything Goes") - Ethel Merman & Cast

Soundtrack Recording
 

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