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David Mirvish is delighted to announce the addition of the Roundabout Theatre Company’s Tony Award®-winning ANYTHING GOES, the new Broadway revival of Cole Porter’s timeless classic musical theatre masterpiece, to the 2012-13 Mirvish Theatre Subscription.
Starring one of Broadway’s leading lights, Rachel York, ANYTHING GOES will be performed July 16 to August 18, 2013 at a Mirvish theatre to be announced.
ANYTHING GOES joins an exciting and eclectic line-up of shows on the 2012-13 subscription season: (chronologically) BACKBEAT, SISTER ACT, LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, THE WIZARD OF OZ and THE BOOK OF MORMON.
ANYTHING GOES replaces the previously announced HONEYMOON IN VEGAS, whose producers had intended to open their show in Toronto on the Mirvish season but scheduling conflicts have forced them to change their plans. Its producers will announce future plans for HONEYMOON IN VEGAS soon.
Winner of three 2011 Tony Awards®, including Best Revival of a Musical and Best Choreography for Kathleen Marshall, who also directed this production, ANYTHING GOES is described by The New York Times as “a zesty new revival with knockout numbers and white-hot dancing” while the AP exclaims that it’s, “so delightful, so delicious, so de-lovely!”
Says David Mirvish: “ANYTHING GOES is one of my favourite musicals, and to bring it back to Toronto in the wonderful new Roundabout production is a privilege and a joy.
“We’ve already had great success in our subscription season with Roundabout’s acclaimed production of TWELVE ANGRY MEN, which sold-out its original Toronto run several seasons ago and had to be brought back for an encore engagement to fulfill audience demand.
“I’m confident Toronto audiences will embrace this new Roundabout production with the same enthusiasm and excitement.”
The Story & Music
When the S.S. American heads out to sea, etiquette and convention head out the portholes as two unlikely pairs set off on the course to true love... proving that sometimes destiny needs a little help from a crew of singing sailors, an exotic disguise and some good old-fashioned blackmail.
Cole Porter’s roundup of nostalgic hits in ANYTHING GOES include “You’re the Top,”“Friendship,”“I Get a Kick Out of You,”“It’s De-Lovely,”“Blow, Gabriel, Blow” and, of course “Anything Goes.”
About The Roundabout Theatre Company Production
Roundabout Theatre Company’s ANYTHING GOES played for over 500 performances on Broadway at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre. The national tour, which will be the production that will play Toronto, launches October 2012 in Cleveland, OH.
ANYTHING GOES features music and lyrics by Cole Porter; original book by P.G. Wodehouse & Guy Bolton and Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse; and new book by Timothy Crouse and John Weidman. The creative team, under Kathleen Marshall’s direction, includes music direction by Phil Reno with additional orchestrations by Bill Elliot, original scenic design by Derek McLane, costumes by Martin Pakledinaz, lighting design by Howell Binkley and sound design by Brian Ronan.
The New Broadway Cast Recording of Roundabout Theatre Company’s ANYTHING GOES, nominated for a 2011 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theatre Album, is available on Ghostlight Records.
A History of ANYTHING GOES
The original production of ANYTHING GOES starred Ethel Merman as Reno Sweeney. The first Broadway revival of the show was produced by Lincoln Center Theater at the Vivian Beaumont Theater in 1987. Patti LuPone starred. That version of the property has been revived by Roundabout Theatre Company.
There had been an earlier rewrite of the property that played Off-Broadway’s Orpheum Theatre in 1962, starring Hal Linden and Eileen Rodgers. For 25 years, it was the primary licensable version of the title, and spawned a cast album (introducing show tune fans to such interpolated oddities as “Heaven Hop” and “Let’s Step Out”). A 1988 studio recording of the score as it would have been heard opening night (with original tempos and orchestrations) was released by EMI Classics, with Kim Criswell as Reno and Frederica Von Stade as Hope. It was under the music direction of the late conductor and music historian John McGlinn, who added an appendix featuring songs written for but not used in 1934.
Creative Team Bios
KATHLEEN MARSHALL received 2011 Tony®, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Awards for choreography and Tony®, Drama Desk and Outer Critics nominations for direction for Roundabout Theatre Company’s Anything Goes. Also for Roundabout, Kathleen directed and choreographed The Pajama Game and choreographed Follies and 1776. Other Broadway credits include Wonderful Town; Grease; Boeing-Boeing; Little Shop of Horrors; Seussical; Kiss Me, Kate; and Swinging on a Star. Off-Broadway: Two Gentlemen of Verona (New York Shakespeare Festival), Saturday Night (Second Stage), Violet (Playwrights Horizons) and As Thousands Cheer (Drama Dept). City Center Encores!: Bells Are Ringing, Applause, Carnival, Hair and Babes in Arms; Artistic Director for four seasons. For ABC/Disney: “Once Upon a Mattress” and Meredith Willson’s “The Music Man” (Emmy nomination). She has received two Tony® Awards, two Drama Desk Awards, two Outer Critics Circle Awards, the Astaire Award, the George Abbott Award, the Richard Rodgers Award and the Pennsylvania Governor’s Award for the Arts. Ms. Marshall is the Vice President of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and is an Associate Artist of the Roundabout Theatre Company. For Scott, Ella and Nathaniel.
ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) was most recently represented across the country with the critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning national tour of Twelve Angry Men that toured the country for 2 years, spending 63 weeks across the United States and Canada. Roundabout’s longest-running musical, the revival of Cabaret, received a multi-year tour across the country beginning in 1999. In 2011, Roundabout Theatre Company’s acclaimed work reached a worldwide cinema audience with the HD capture and broadcast of their Tony nominated production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring Brian Bedford.
Now in its 46th season, Roundabout has become one of New York City’s most accomplished cultural institutions and one of the country’s largest not-for-profit theatre companies. With four theatres both on Broadway and off, Roundabout reaches over 600,000 theater goers annually, including over 35,000 subscribers, through award-winning productions of classical and contemporary plays and musicals. In addition to providing an artistic home for many of the finest actors, playwrights, composers and directors of our time, Roundabout is home to model education and outreach programs designed to diversify and develop the theatre’s audiences. With four distinctive homes, the American Airlines Theatre, Studio 54 and the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre, site of the Laura Pels Theatre and Black Box Theatre, Roundabout has the unique ability to do high-quality, professional stagings of work in a venue perfectly suited to enhance each production. Roundabout also programs the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, where its 2011 Tony Award winning production of Anything Goes played. Since moving to Broadway 20 years ago, Roundabout productions have received 181 Tony® nominations, 174 Drama Desk nominations and 195 Outer Critics Circle nominations. Production highlights include Anna Christie, She Loves Me, A View from the Bridge, 1776, Nine, Assassins, Intimate Apparel, The Understudy, The Pajama Game, Sunday in the Park with George, Waiting for Godot, The Importance of Being Earnest and Cabaret, one of the longest-running musical revivals in Broadway history.
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Photo: Laura Osnes and Colin Donnell. ©2011 Joan Marcus.
2012-08-02
Toronto: Award-winning “Anything Goes” revival to play Toronto July 16-August 18, 2013