Greenwich Playhouse Presents 'Anything You Can Do'

KADMES Theatre and Greenwich Playhouse present "Anything You Can Do" featuring the music of Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein and Irving Berlin. Three Week Summer Residency At The Greenwich Playhouse from August 5th to August 24th.

The highly respected venue presents a brand new musical theatre revue show entitled "Anything You Can Do". Featuring the music of composers such as Stephen Sondheim, Jason Robert Brown and Irving Berlin, the show is a light hearted journey through many of the worlds most popular shows and songs, with a promise of several rather more obscure musical numbers thrown into the mix. But this is a revue show with a difference, as director and writer Martin Berry explained: 'It is fair to say that the musical theatre revue in its usual form has been done to death over the years. I have come to feel that if you've seen one diva standing in a black dress gurning her way
through 'Don't Cry For Me Argentina', then you've seen them all! So we have trawled the archives to find some real gems from relatively unknown shows, songs that sit happily alongside more recognizable numbers from shows such as Sweeney Todd or Annie Get Your Gun.' But the choice of material is only the beginning, the real interest is in the way it all fits together. 'Most cabaret style shows break the fourth wall. That is, the performers speak directly to the audience, telling them all about the songs and the shows. Anything You Can Do is very different as the cast stay in character throughout, and the show is in fact a story in its own right with a specially written script about a young couple who meet, fall in love, fall out of love and eventually meet a sticky end. And the key thing is that the songs fit into and serve the narrative. So songs that were originally written as part of a narrative through line, are presented as such here – albeit not always in the same setting as they were originally intended.' After a hugely successful residency at the Jermyn Street Theatre in London's West End – this promises to be an evening that no musical theatre fan would want to miss.

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