Anything Goes News

One of New York's treasure troves is what began life on East 53rd as the Museum of Broadcasting, continued on West 52nd Street as the Museum of Television and Radio, and now, in honor of the man whose money ...

Q. In the song "I Get a Kick Out of You" is there a verse that says "I get a kick out of cocaine?" -- Snyder A. I usually don't do "drug" questions, but this one intrigued me.

Q. In the song "I Get a Kick Out of You" is there a verse that says "I get a kick out of cocaine?" -- Snyder A. I usually don't do "drug" questions, but this one intrigued me.

Put very simply, I loved Cole Porter's "Anything Goes" as produced as a dinner theater by the All Saints Theatrical Repertoire Association in Puyallup.

Put very simply, I loved Cole Porter's "Anything Goes" as produced as a dinner theater by the All Saints Theatrical Repertoire Association in Puyallup.

There was mayhem on the high seas Sunday, July 20, as Tennessee Valley Players wrapped up its theatrical run of Cole Porter's "Anything Goes" at The University of Tennessee School of Music's Grace Moore ...

Married!? Sherry Knott is delighted by the prospect, while Rob Burkel wonders whether it's legal.

“At the first preview Arthur [Laurents] said, 'Now don't expect this every night,' and we had it every night”

Patti LuPone in Gypsy . Hold your hats and hallelujah, Patti's gonna show it to you. via Playbill

“I get to come here every day and rehearse with these young people, work hard, laugh and put something together that this community hasn't had in over six years. They are as responsible for this success as we are and that is special.”

Back in 1934, Cole Porter wrote the music and lyrics for a Broadway show. It was rewritten, restaged and revived after a Boston tryout and opened with Ethel Merman as the star. via Nevada Appeal

“I don't know what you guys do, but I really isolate myself.”

"Anything Goes" premieres this weekend at Bainbridge High. The day before Bainbridge High School's annual spring musical opened, Katie Donais made an assertion that was funny coming from the mouth of a show ... via Bainbridge Island Review

The All City Production of Cole Porter's musical "Anything Goes" featuring students from Pau-Wa-Lu and Carson Valley middle schools and Douglas High School opens 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Pau-Wa-Lu Cafetorium. via The Record-Courier

From my shady London base it's easy to see the way in which musical theatre is heading in the West End, spurred on by Broadway's seemingly insatiable desire for tinsel. via Helium

“Andrew Lloyd Webber memorial pool”

Tonys: Could Patti LuPone get slapped by a diva backlash? Don't assume, like many other Tony pundits, that Patti LuPone will automatically win the best-actress award just because she blasts the roof off the St. via Glodderby

“The older people will get ALL the jokes.”

The musical "Anything Goes," is set aboard a 1930s cruise ship. It sails through a wacky, humor-laden trans-Atlantic plot from Manhattan to London, and has a history as zany as its name. via Hometown Annapolis

Laura Benanti, Patti LuPone & Boyd Gaines share a moment of harmony in 'Gypsy.' Gypsy. via NY Daily News

“Merman was ... you heard that voice and you were blown away, but she really couldn't act.”

When Patti LuPone was in her early teens, she appeared in a local Long Island production of "Gypsy," put on by what she says was "a group of kids that got together in the summertime. via 102.9 CKDS-FM

“What the hell should I be nervous about, for Chrissake? They came to see me. I didn't come to see them.”

BRASS DIVA: The Life and Legends of Ethel Merman, by Caryl Flinn. University of California Press, 556 pp., $34.95. 'There won't be another Merman because there is no need for a voice like hers," Kenneth Tynan ... via Newsday.com