It's 1934 and we're going on a wild transatlantic cruise full of sex, booze, God, and gangsters. Welcome to the S.S. American, where anything can happen, and it usually does.
New Line Theatre, "the bad boy of musical theatre," continues its 27th season of adult, alternative musical theatre, with Cole Porter's satiric masterpiece ANYTHING GOES, running March 1-24, 2018, at, the Marcelle Theater, in the Grand Center Arts District.New Line returns this rowdy, naughty, subversive masterpiece of musical comedy to its wild, wacky roots, and its stinging satire of Americans' habit of turning religion into show business and criminals into celebrities, along the way skewering Wall Street, Prohibition, the Brits, class, and several other ripe targets. The show is a masterful mashup of musical comedy, gangster movie, screwball comedy, and social satire, because even in terms of form, anything goes! Cole Porter's amazing score includes "You're the Top," "I Get a Kick Out of You," "Let's Misbehave," "All Through the Night," "It's De-Lovely," and many other Porter hits.Despite its reputation as old-school fluff, Anything Goes is a whip-smart satire of America's "cafe society" (the 1% of 1934), with the steamship S.S. American standing in for Shakespeare's woods, a place with no rules where people find out who they really are and "correct" the mistakes they've made in the world of the City. Anything Goes fearlessly rips open the American psyche and spills it all out onto our stage.
Zachary Allen Farmer as Sir Evelyn Oakleigh, Eileen Engel as Hope Harcourt, and Kimmie Kidd-Booker as Mrs. Evangeline Harcourt, in New Line Theatre's ANYTHING GOES. Photo credit: Jill Ritter Lindberg.
Sarah Porter as Reno Sweeney (center), surrounded by her Angels (clockwise from left) Alyssa Wolf, Larissa White, Michelle Sauer, and Sara Rae Womack, in New Line Theatre's ANYTHING GOES. Photo credit: Jill Ritter Lindberg.
Aaron Allen as Moonface Martin, and Sarah Gene Dowling as Bonnie Letour, in New Line Theatre's ANYTHING GOES. Photo credit: Jill Ritter Lindberg.
The company of New Line Theatre's ANYTHING GOES. Photo credit: Jill Ritter Lindberg.
The company of New Line Theatre's ANYTHING GOES. Photo credit: Jill Ritter Lindberg.
The company of New Line Theatre's ANYTHING GOES. Photo credit: Jill Ritter Lindberg
The company of New Line Theatre's ANYTHING GOES. Photo credit: Jill Ritter Lindberg.
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