Musical sensation Anything Goes arrives in Bristol next week

Posted on: 08 Apr 2022

The multi-Tony award-winning show boasts a star-studded headline cast and a joyful score from the late, great Cole Porter.

 

Based on the book by P.G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton, Anything Goes takes to the Bristol Hippodrome stage next week.

 

Running between Monday 11 and Saturday 16 April 2022, the show is directed by multi-award-winning Broadway director/choreographer Kathleen Marshall and will star Kerry Ellis, Denis Lawson, Simon Callow and Bonnie Langford.

 

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Anything Goes is coming to Bristol as part of a tour around the UK after its roaring success at London’s Barbican following the reopening of theatres in the summer of 2021.

 

Indeed, with hit numbers such as ‘You’re the Top’, ‘Friendship’, ‘I Get a Kick Out of You’ and ‘Blow Gabriel Blow’ in tow and talented director and choreographer Kathleen Marshall involved, the production was always likely to prove a roaring success.

 

Speaking about her experience working on the musical, “How many hundreds of times have I heard these Cole Porter songs?”, she says, “I never get sick of them because they’re so smartly written. This show to me is like a wonderful gift. When you’re giving someone a gift you can’t wait for them to open it.”

 

If the celebrated show tunes aren’t enough, Anything Goes features a star cast of the highest pedigree. We Will Rock You and Wicked star Kerry Ellis (pictured below aboard the SS Great Britain) is playing the sassy evangelist-turned-nightclub vamp, Reno Sweeney.

Joining her will be iconic Olivier Award winner Denis Lawson (Local Hero and Bleak House) playing the role of hapless hoodlum Moonface Martin. Simon Callow (pictured below), of Four Weddings & A Funeral and The Witcher, fame plays Elisha Whitney – a Wall Street tycoon with bad eyesight who likes a drink.

Completing this experienced cast is musical theatre legend, Bonnie Langford (pictured below). Also featuring on the small screen in the likes of Doctor Who, Eastenders and Dancing on Ice, Langford will depict Evangeline Harcourt - an impoverished widow desperate to marry off her daughter into money.

Expect raucous scenes, tap-dancing sailors, heart-warming romance and everything to inevitably go wrong in this award-winning musical.

 

As well as Bristol, Anything Goes will visit theatres in Liverpool, Edinburgh, Dublin and Manchester before returning to London between June and September. Head to the production’s website to find out more.

 

Tickets for the musical’s run at Bristol Hippodrome between 11 and 16 April are on sale now and can be found here. Alternatively, to find out what’s coming up at the city’s biggest theatre venue, head to the ATG website.

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