The recording, preserving Sutton Foster's Tony Award-winning performance as belter Reno Sweeney, will be available for pre-order on the label's website, http://sh-k-boom.com/anythinggoes.shtml. Enthusiastic reviews helped fuel an extension of the limited-run Roundabout Theatre Company revival all the way to January 2012. Now a two-time Tony Award winner, Sutton Foster plays nightclub singer Reno Sweeney in the 1934 confection about hijinks and romance on a transatlantic ocean liner. Foster's first Best Actress Tony was for Thoroughly Modern Millie. In Anything Goes, she sings some of Porter's best-known songs ("Anything Goes," "You're the Top," "Friendship," "I Get a Kick Out of You," "Blow, Gabriel, Blow").
Foster is at home on the Ghostlight/Sh-K-Boom record labels. She is heard on its cast albums of Little Women and The Drowsy Chaperone and on the solo albums "Wish" and "An Evening with Sutton Foster – Live at the Café Carlyle."
The recording of Anything Goes will also be available for purchase at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre (124 W. 43rd Street).
The CD package includes liner notes by Melissa Rose Bernardo and a 36-page booklet of full-color photos and additional material. Kurt Deutsch is executive producer of the album, which was recorded in June.
Here's the track listing for Anything Goes: Overture
I Get A Kick Out of You
There’s No Cure Like Travel / Bon Voyage
You're The Top
Easy To Love
Easy To Love Reprise
The Crew Song
There'll Always Be a Lady Fair
Friendship
It's De-Lovely
Anything Goes
Public Enemy Number One
Blow, Gabriel, Blow
Goodbye, Little Dream, Goodbye
Be Like the Blue Bird
All Through the Night
The Gypsy in Me
Buddie, Beware
Finale
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photo by Joan Marcus |
The score of Anything Goes includes "It's De-lovely," "Easy to Love," "All Through the Night," and more. Rob Fisher is the musical supervisor. James Lowe is the conductor/music director. Original 1987 orchestrations are by Michael Gibson; additional orchestrations by Bill Elliott.
Anything Goes is directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall; she won the 2011 Tony for Best Choreography.
Also heard on the Anything Goes disc are Tony and Academy Award winner Joel Grey as Moonface Martin, Colin Donnell as Billy, Laura Osnes as Hope, Adam Godley as Evelyn (he was Tony-nominated for his work), John McMartin as Elisha Whitney, Jessica Walter as Evangeline Harcourt (the role is now played by Kelly Bishop), Jessica Stone as Erma, Walter Charles as Captain, Robert Creighton as Purser, Andrew Cao as Luke, and Raymond J. Lee as John, with Clyde Alves, Ward Billeisen, Joyce Chittick, Nikki Renée Daniels, Margot De La Barre, Kimberly Fauré, Josh Franklin, Justin Greer, Daniel J. Edwards, Tari Kelly, Shina Ann Morris, Linda Mugleston, Kevin Munhall, Adam Perry, William Ryall, Jennifer Savelli, Anthony Wayne and Kristen Beth Williams.
This revised revival of the vintage musical (Timothy Crouse and John Weidman adapted the script in the 1980s) opened April 7 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre at 124 W. 43rd Street. It was originally scheduled to run through July 31.
The new Broadway cast recording of Anything Goes is made possible by The Areté Foundation, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Goldman Sachs Gives at the recommendation of R. Martin Chavez, Harry E. Gould, Jr., and David and Mary Solomon.
For tickets and information, visit Telecharge.com or call (212) 239-6200 or (800) 432-7250 or visit the Sondheim Theatre Box Office at 124 W. 43rd St., or visit www.anythinggoesonbroadway.com or www.roundabouttheatre.org.
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