Anything Goes
The Plot
MPO played to full houses every night during our run of Anything Goes.
Step aboard the SS AMERICAN in the 1930s bound for England. Everyone is on board including Billy – who shouldn't be!
Unfortunately not as may celebrities are making the journey as usual – but Reno Sweeney, famed Evangelist turned nightclub singer is, with her four beautiful Angels. And the reason Billy stayed on board after dropping his
boss off? Hope – the girl he met and fell in love with the other evening. Unfortunately for Billy, Hope's
overbearing mother and her English fiancée Sir Evelyn Oakleigh are also on board.
How is Billy going to make Hope (and more to the point Hope's mother) see that he is the one she has to marry...
and how is he going to so it without being caught as a stowaway? You may well ask... but it has something to do
with two Chinese converts, the 13th most wanted man in America and a rice field!
ANYTHING GOES (REVISED)
Music and Lyrics by COLE PORTER
Book by Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay, and Russel Crouse
By arrangement with MusicScope & Stage Musicals Limited of New York
This is an amateur performace.
The Cast
| Solo Parts | Description | 2019 |
|---|---|---|
| Reno Sweeney | A sexy and charismatic nightclub singer. Alto (G3 – Eb5). | |
| Hope Harcourt | Young wealthy and beautiful heiress. Soprano (A4 – Bb5). | |
| Bonnie | A moll, travelling with Moon. Mezzo-soprano A4-C#5 | |
| Mrs Wadsworth T. (Evangaline) Harcourt | Hope’s widowed, overbearing mother. | |
| Charity | Reno's Angel | |
| Purity | Reno's Angel | |
| Chastity | Reno's Angel | |
| Virtue | Reno's Angel | |
| Billy Crocker | He is Elisha Whitney’s General Manager, loves Hope. TENOR | |
| Lord Evelyn Oakleigh | Hope’s aristocratic English fiancé. Baritone (C3 – G4). | |
| Moonface Martin | Goofy gangster who is public enemy No 13. Baritone (Bb3 – Gb4) | |
| Elisha J. Whitney | A successful Ivy League Wall Street banker. Baritone (C3 – D4) | |
| Captain | in charge of the ship, the SS American. Baritone | |
| Purser | The officer on ship | |
| Ching/Luke | Chinese cousins, reformed gamblers and Christian Converts | |
| Ling/John | Chinese cousins, reformed gamblers and Christian Converts | |
| Henry T Dobson | Missionary bishop returning from China | |
| Steward | of the SS American | |
| Reporter | of the ‘Globe American’ newspaper | |
| Cameraman | of the ‘Globe American’ newspaper | |
| Sailors | Ships crew – some simple dancing required. |
Photos
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