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Porthcawl Comprehensive School
 February 2008 Production
Cole Porter's
Anything
Goes
The Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl
Wed 30 Jan - Sat 2 Feb 2008 |
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Anything Goes is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter.
The "book" was a collaborative effort by Guy Bolton and PG Wodehouse,
revised by Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse. It introduced such songs as
"Anything Goes", "You're the Top", and "I Get a kick out of you".
It was first produced on Broadway in 1934 and has been revived several
times in the United States and Britain and has been filmed twice.
Anything Goes and Porgy and Bess are the only 1930s musicals that are
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![[ ANYTHING GOES POSTER ]](MPW-30491.jpg) |
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Billy Crocker, a young
love-sick Wall Street broker, stows away on the S.S. American in hope of
winning the heart of his beloved Hope Harcourt. His boss, Yale graduate
Elisha J. Whitney, is also on board. He plans to relax before the
tremendous sale of his own company's stock (or, in the 1962 version, to
make an important business deal in England).
Hope is on her way to England to be married to Sir Evelyn Oakleigh (Lord
Evelyn Oakleigh in the 1987 version), a stuffy, hapless British
nobleman.
Also on the boat are "Moonface" Martin, a second-rate gangster on the
lam, labelled "Public Enemy 13" and his friend Bonnie (originally named
Erma); the two have disguised themselves as a minister and a missionary,
respectively, after stranding the ship's real chaplain back at the port.
They also, mistakenly, left behind their leader, "Snake Eyes" Johnson,
Public Enemy 1. |
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On board, Crocker runs into his friend, Reno Sweeney, an evangelizing
nightclub singer, who resolves to help Billy win over Hope, to the
dismay of Hope's mother, Mrs. Harcourt (though she doesn't know about
the original
plan), who insists she marry Evelyn. Billy simultaneously learns the
true identities of Moonface and Bonnie and in exchange for his silence
they join the plot to break up Hope and Evelyn. However, as Billy
doesn't have a ticket or passport, Bonnie and Moonface let him have
Snake Eyes Johnson's, without telling him to whom it belongs. But the
ships crew figure out that Public Enemy 1 is on board and Billy has to
take on a number of hilarious disguises to hide from them, which at
first makes Hope angry with him. |
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As the show progresses, Hope, Evelyn, Billy, Reno, Elisha, Mrs.
Harcourt, Bonnie and Moonface all end up in a variety of compromising
positions with members of the opposite sex, with Reno seducing Evelyn
Oakleigh (originally just to get seen by Hope or Mrs. Harcourt so they
would reject him), but eventually she wins him over for real and they
even get married. Hope and Billy also get married, Mrs. Harcourt
(divorced) and Mr. Whitney get married and Moonface Martin receives a
notice on board that the government considers him "harmless." |
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