Cole Porter’s Anything Goes Australian Production

National Tour Dates and Reviews

 

 

 

 

Whats it all About

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 Number One 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.”

 

 

Who’s In It (Cast)

 

Caroline O’Connor – Reno Sweeney
Todd McKenney – Lord Evelyn Oakleigh
Alan Jones – The Captain
Carmen Duncan – Evangeline Harcourt
Alex Rathgeber – Billy Crocker
Wayne Scott Kermond – Moonface Martin
Claire Lyon – Hope Harcourt
Debora Kriak – Erma

 

Cole Porter ? Who’s That ?

 

Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, he defied the wishes of his domineering grandfather and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn towards musical theatre. After a slow start, he began to achieve success in the 1920s, and by the 1930s he was one of the major songwriters for the Broadway musical stage. Unlike many successful Broadway composers, Porter wrote the lyrics as well as the music for his songs.Porter maintained a luxury apartment in Paris, where he entertained lavishly. His parties were extravagant and scandalous, with “much gay and bisexual activity, Italian nobility, cross-dressing, international musicians, and a large surplus of recreational drugs”.

In 1918, he met Linda Lee Thomas, a rich, Louisville, Kentucky-born divorcée eight years his senior. She was beautiful and well-connected socially; the couple shared mutual interests, including a love of travel, and she became Porter’s confidant and companion. The couple married the following year. She was in no doubt about Porter’s homosexuality, but it was mutually advantageous for them to marry. For Linda it offered continued social status and a partner who was the antithesis of her abusive first husband. For Porter, it brought a respectable heterosexual front in an era when homosexuality was not publicly acknowledged. They were, moreover, genuinely devoted to each other and remained married from December 19, 1919, until her death in 1954. Linda remained protective of her social position, and believing that classical music might be a more prestigious outlet than Broadway for her husband’s talents, she tried to use her connections to find him suitable teachers, including Igor Stravinsky, but was unsuccessful. Finally, Porter enrolled at the Schola Cantorum in Paris where he studied orchestration and counterpoint with Vincent d’Indy.Meanwhile, Porter’s first big hit was the song “Old-Fashioned Garden” from the revue Hitchy-Koo in 1919. In 1920, he contributed the music of several songs to the musical A Night Out. See More Here

 

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Reviews

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Tour Details

The cities, theatres, and dates for the tour are as follows:

Melbourne 31May – Booking Until 28 June 2015

Princess Theatre Melbourne

Brisbane 28 July – Booking Until 9th August 2015

Lyric Theatre Brisbane

Sydney 8 September – Booking until 4th October

Sydney Opera House

 

Please Note Tour Dates/ and Cast are all Subject to Change without notice check your daily press.

 

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Australian Production Creative

Dean Bryant – Director
Andrew Hallsworth – Choreographer
Michael Waters – Sound Design
More information on Anything Goes at TheatreGold DataBase HERE