Anything Goes

1987 Broadway Revival

Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Original Book by Guy Bolton &
P. G. Wodehouse and Howard
Lindsay & Russel Crouse
New Book by Timothy Crouse
and John Weidman

Opened October 19, 1987 at
the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, NYC
Closed September 3, 1989
Ran for 804 performances
Produced by Lincoln Center Theater
[Gregory Mosher, Director;
Bernard Gersten, Executive Producer]
Directed by Jerry Zaks
Choreography by Michael Smuin
Settings and Costumes by Tony Walton
Lighting by Paul Gallo
Musical Director: Edward Strauss
Orchestrations by Michael Gibson
Dance Arrangements by Tom Fay
Sound by Tony Meola

Cast

Patti LuPone (Reno Sweeney), Howard McGillin (Billy Crocker), Bill McCutcheon (Moonface Martin), Rex Everhart (Elisha Whitney), Anne Francine (Mrs. Evangeline Harcourt), Linda Hart (Erma), Anthony Heald (Lord Evelyn Oakleigh), Kathleen Mahony-Bennett (Hope Harcourt)

Musical Numbers

Act One

• Prelude - Cole Porter / Orchestra
  
  Scene 1: A smokey Manhattan bar
• "I Get a Kick Out of You" - Reno Sweeney
  Scene 2: The afterdeck of an ocean liner shortly before sailing
• "There's No Cure Like Travel" - Sailor, Girl and Crew
• "Bon Voyage" - Company
  Scene 3: On Deck, that evening
• "You're the Top" - Reno and Billy Crocker
• "Easy to Love" - Billy
  Scene 4: Lights up on Whitney's Stateroom
• "I Want to Row on the Crew" [from Paranoia]- Elisha Whitney
  Scene 5: On Deck, mid-morning
• "Sailor's Chantey" - Chantey Quarter
• "Friendship" [from Du Barry Was a Lady] - Reno and Moonface Martin
  Scene 6: Evelyn's Stateroom
  Scene 7: On Deck
• "It's De-Lovely" [from Red, Hot and Blue] - Billy and Hope Harcourt
  Scene 8: The same, early the following morning
• "Anything Goes" - Reno and Company

Act Two

• Entr'acte - Orchestra
  
  Scene 1: The Ship's Nightclub
• "Public Enemy Number One" - Company
• "Blow, Gabriel, Blow" - Reno and Company
• "Goodbye, Little Dream, Goodbye" [from O Mistress Mine] - Hope
  Scene 2: The Brig
• "Be Like the Bluebird" - Moonface
• "All Through the Night" - Billy, Hope, Crew
  Scene 3: On Deck
• "The Gypsy in Me" - Lord Evelyn Oakleigh
  Scene 4: The Brig
  Scene 5: On Deck
• "Buddie, Beware" - Erma and Crew
• Finale: "I Get a Kick Out of You" / "Anything Goes" (reprises) - Company

Cast Recording

Produced for Records by Jay David Saks
Engineered by Paul Goodman and Anthony Salvatore
Recorded in RCA's Studio A on December 7, 1987

• Compact Disc, 1988 [RCA 7769-2 RC]
• Cassette, 1988 [RCA 7769-4-RC]

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