- Year
- 2017
- When
- April 2017
- Venue
- Dormston Mill Theatre, Sedgley
- Type
- Musical
- Music
- Cole Porter
- Lyrics
- Cole Porter
- Original book
- Guy Bolton, P.G. Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse
- New book
- Timothy Crouse, John Weidman
- Photographs
- 170 in the gallery
Synopsis
Aboard the liner S.S. American, sailing from New York to England, the Wall Street underling Billy Crocker stows away to win the heiress Hope Harcourt, who is engaged to the English gentleman Sir Evelyn Oakleigh. Helped by the nightclub singer and former evangelist Reno Sweeney, and by the gangster Moonface Martin, Billy takes on one disguise after another, is mistaken for Public Enemy Number One and lands in the ship's brig. By the time England is in sight the disguises are dropped, Oakleigh gives up his claim, and Hope, Reno and Mrs Harcourt are all happily paired off.
From the company’s records
Ran 25 April 2017 to 29 April 2017.
The company's second production of Anything Goes, after 1997.
An after show party was held at Short Heath British Legion Club.
The rehearsal schedule puts the band call and technical rehearsal on Sunday 23 April 2017 and the dress rehearsal on Monday 24 April, both at the Dormston Mill Theatre with the full company.
There were no rehearsals on Good Friday or the following bank holiday Monday.
Who made it
Production team
- Producer / Director
- Alf Rai
- Choreographer
- Lindsey Grant
- Musical Director
- Phil James
- Lighting Director
- Alec Corbett
- Sound Engineer
- Black Country Audio
- Costumes
- Stageworld, Wolverhampton
- Scenery
- Scenery Hire, Wales
- Props
- Nikki Rai
- Props
- Anne Stokes
- Props
- Barbara King
- Stage Manager
- Sue Dorward
- Programme Design
- Daniel Haddon
- Ticket Secretary
- Chris Spittle
- Wardrobe Mistress
- Laura Leo
- Front of House Manager
- Mike Barlow
- Photography
- Chris Wolverson
- Photography
- Daniel Haddon
- Facebook Marketing
- Abbie Rai
- Friends of WMTC co-ordination
- Kay Corbett
Cast
- Reno Sweeney
- Rachel Coleman
- Billy Crocker
- Will Phipps
- Lord Evelyn
- Daniel Haddon
- Hope Harcourt
- Abbie Sellick
- Moonface Martin
- Dom Napier
- Erma Latour
- Megan Rai
- Elisha Whitney
- Roger Stokes
- Evangeline Harcourt
- Carol Ann Burgess
- Luke
- Matthew Wirtz
- John
- James Totney
- Ships Captain
- Colin Hunt
- Ships Purser
- John Wiley
- Purity
- Phoebe Bruerton
- Chastity
- Helen Keith Stone
- Charity
- Felicity North
- Virtue
- Samantha King
- Melody
- Kimberly Smith
- Harmony
- Rosie Harper
- Bishop Henry T. Dobson
- Phillip Field
Everybody else
The rest of the names the company’s records carry for this production, on stage and off it.
Chorus and company39
John Arnold, Kelly Ashman, Grace Bradshaw, Phoebe Bruerton, Carol Ann Burgess, Rachel Coleman, Beth Coleman, Megan Cooper, Hannah Corbett, Hannah Dean, Phillip Field, Charlotte Goode, Jessica Goodwin, Daniel Haddon, Colin Hunt, Tom Gould, Rosie Harper, Georgia Haycock, Alex Jeffreys, Samantha King, Emily Leadbetter, Laura Leo, Emily Lloyd-Hickman, Joash Musundi, Dom Napier, Felicity North, Will Phipps, Megan Rai, Nikki Rai, Jenni Rullan, Abbie Sellick, Kimberly Smith, Roger Stokes, Helen Keith Stone, James Totney, Kate Webber, John Wiley, Simon Williams, Matthew Wirtz
The running order
Every number, in the order the programme printed them.
Act one
Overture
I Get a Kick Out of You
Reno Sweeney
No Cure Like Travel
Sailors, Ship's Crew
Bon Voyage
Company
You're the Top
Reno Sweeney, Billy Crocker
Easy to Love
Billy Crocker
Reprise: Easy to Love
Hope Harcourt
I Want to Row with the Crew
Elisha Whitney
Sailor's Chanty
Chanty Quartet
Friendship
Reno Sweeney, Moonface Martin
It's De-lovely
Billy Crocker, Hope Harcourt
Anything Goes
Reno Sweeney, Company
Act two
Public Enemy #1
Company
Blow, Gabriel, Blow
Reno Sweeney, Company
Goodbye, Little Dream, Goodbye
Hope Harcourt
Be Like the Bluebird
Moonface Martin
All Through the Night
Billy Crocker, Hope Harcourt, Men
The Gypsy in Me
Lord Evelyn Oakleigh
Buddie, Beware
Erma, Sailors
I Get a Kick Out of You (reprise)
Company
Finale
Company
Photographs
See all 170 photographs from Anything Goes
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