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July
8-23, 2006
Music
by Cole Porter
Honorary
Producers:
Kathryn Baker Campbell,
Richard Neri and Kurt Schulzman
Youth
Performances Underwritten by:
Arts Council for Long Beach,
Universal Care
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Starring
Belle Calaway as Reno Sweeny and Kevin Earley as Billy
Crocker
Belle Calaway
(Reno Sweeney)
Kevin Earley
(Billy Crocker)
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The
classic example of 1930's song-and-dance sets sail from
the Carpenter Center with a stage full of tap-dancers
and a sparkling Cole Porter score including "You're
the Top," "I Get A Kick Out Of You,"
"Blow, Gabriel, Blow" and the title song.
REVIEWS
By
David C. Nichols Special to the Times
Score
keeps 'Anything Goes' afloat
Outstanding
singing and choreography make this version of a Cole
Porter classic quite enjoyable.
Even
audiences who get no kick from champagne may get tipsy
over "Anything Goes" at the Carpenter Performing Arts
Center in Long Beach. Cole Porter's classic 1934 musical
receives a brashly entertaining Musical Theatre West
revival.
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here for the entire review
By
Alessandra Djurklou, for Press Telegram
Great
Cole Porter songs make 'Anything Goes' the top
Musical
Theatre West opened its production of Broadway classic
"Anything Goes" at the Carpenter Center last weekend.
And let's face it - as musicals go, this one has a silly
plot (shenanigans on an ocean liner a la "Love Boat")
and off-the-wall characters (an evangelist-turned-nightclub
singer and a mobster dressed as a priest). But what
makes it such a watchable piece of entertainment is
not the plot nor the characters, but Cole Porter's music...
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here for the entire review
By
Rachel Stillman, for Grunion Gazette
"Anything
Goes" In Spectacular Musical
Cole
Porter's classic 1934 musical may be called "Anything
Goes," but it could just have easily have been dubbed
"Spectacular-Spectacular." Musical Theatre West's production
of ANYTHING GOES has everything you could ever
want in a musical - comedy, romance, a luxurious ocean
liner, mob members, Cole Porter songs, excellent singing
and dancing numbers and terrific performances. It never
slows down during the two-and-a-half hour running time.
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here for the entire review
By
Les Spindle, for Backstage West
Anything
Goes
Mojica
clearly deserves the lion's share of the credit, but
there's plenty of praise to go around. In the brassy
role of belting evangelist Reno Sweeney, strongly identified
with Ethel Merman, Belle Calaway puts her own stamp
on the role. There's a bit of Chita Rivera and a touch
of Patti LuPone...
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here for the entire review
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