Anything Goes

1962 Off-Broadway Revival

A Musical Comedy in Two Acts
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton & P. G. Wodehouse and Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse (Revised by Guy Bolton)

Opened May 15, 1962 at the Orpheum Theatre, NYC
Produced by Jane Friedlander, Michael Parver, and Gene Andrewski
Directed by Lawrence Kasha
Musical Numbers and Dances Staged by Ronald Field
Sets and Lighting by Don Jensen
Costumes by Bill Hargate
Musical Coordinator: Ted Simons
Hair Styles by Ronald De Mann
Musical Direction, Orchestrations, and Choral Arrangements by Julian Stein

Cast

Eileen Rodgers (Reno Sweeney), Hal Linden (Billy Crocker), Mickey Deems (Moonface Martin), Barbara Lang (Hope Harcourt), Margery Gray (Bonnie), Kenneth Mars (Lord Evelyn Oakleigh), Mildred Chandler (Mrs. Wadsworth T. Harcourt), Warren Wade (Elisha Whitney), Neal Patrick (Bishop Dobson)

Musical Numbers

Act One

• Overture - Orchestra
  
  Scene 1: Afterdeck of the Ship
• "You're the Top" - Billy Crocker and Reno Sweeney
• "Bon Voyage" - Ensemble
  Scene 2: On the Ship's Deck. Night
• "It's De-Lovely" [from Red, Hot and Blue] - Billy and Hope Harcourt, Ensemble
  Scene 3: Two Cabins on the "A" Deck
• "Bon Voyage" (reprise) - Orchestra
  Scene 4: The Ship's Deck
• "Heaven Hop" [from Paris] - Bonnie, Girls
  Scene 5: The Ship's Deck
• "Friendship" [from Du Barry Was a Lady] - Moonface Martin, Billy and Reno
  Scene 6: Evelyn's Stateroom
• "Bon Voyage" (reprise) - Orchestra
  Scene 7: The Ship's Deck
• "I Get a Kick Out of You" - Reno
  Scene 8: The Afterdeck
• "Anything Goes" - Reno

Act Two

• Entr'acte - Orchestra
  
  Scene 1: Ship's Lounge
• "Public Enemy Number One" - Ensemble
• "Let's Step Out" [from Fifty Million Frenchmen] - Bonnie, Ensemble
• "Let's Misbehave" [written for Paris] - Reno and Lord Evelyn Oakleigh
• "Blow, Gabriel, Blow" - Reno and Ensemble
  Scene 2: The Brig
• "All Through the Night" - Billy and Hope
• "Be Like the Bluebird" - Moonface
• "All Through the Night" (reprise)
• "Bon Voyage" (reprise) - Orchestra
  Scene 3: The Ship's Deck
• "Take Me Back to Manhattan" [from The New Yorkers] - Reno, Girls
• "You're the Top" (reprise) - Entire Company

Original Cast Recording

Produced for Records by James Foglesong
Liner notes by Curtis F. Brown

• LP (mono), 1962 [Epic FLM 13100]
• LP (stereo), 1962 [Epic FLS 15100]
• Triple LP (mono), 1981 [Time-Life Records STL-AM02, with original cast recordings of Kiss Me Kate and Can-Can]
• Compact Disc, 19?? [Epic EK 15100]
• Cassette, 19?? [Epic JST 15100]

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