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Shows · Anything Goes · Alvin Theatre, 1934

Anything Goes, 1934

Opened November 21, 1934

Closed November 16, 1935

420 performances

Neil Simon Theatre

Original

Broadway

Anything Goes

Of the productions that opened in the 1930s, this had the 20th longest run.

Other stagings of Anything Goes 3 more

1987
RevivalBroadway Revival
784 performances
2002
Vivian Beaumont TheaterBroadway Revival, directed by Robert Longbottom
1 performances
2011
Stephen Sondheim TheatreBroadway Revival, directed by Kathleen Marshall
521 performances

Who was in it61 named

May Abbey
Kay Adams
William Barry
Chet Bree
Norma Butler
Billy Curtis
Edward Delbridge
Lola Dexter
Florence Earle
Enez Early
Maurice Elliott
Neal Evans
Paul Everton
Charlie Fang
Marjorie Fisher
Helen Folsom
Stuart Fraser
David Glidden
Ruth Gomley
Irene Hamlin
Maurine Holmes
Renee Johnson
Evelyn Kelly
Irene Kelly
John C King
Leoda Knapp
Doris Maye
Richard Nealy
Marquita Nicholai
Lillian Ostrom
Jackie Paige
Mary Philips
Del Porter
Pacie Ripple
Cornelia Rogers
Ruth Shaw
Eleanore Sheridan
Marshall Smith
Dwight Snyder
Ethel Sommerville
William Stamm
Frances Stewart
Drucilla Strain
The Stylists
Val Vestoff
Finette Walker
John Walsh
Richard Wang
Harry Wilson

Creative team

Director
Howard Lindsay
Choreographer
Robert Alton
Producer
Vinton Freedley

Recordings

13 recordings of Anything Goes exist, but none were released while this run was on. See Anything Goes for all of them.

Around this production

'The Original Anything Goes – A Classic Restored', notes to Anything Goes, EMI/Angel CDC 7…

The original plot involved a shipwreck, but the SS Morro Castle disaster happened just before opening, so the book was hastily rewritten in two weeks.

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