ACT I
I Get A Kick Out Of You
Reno
There’s No Cure Like Travel
Girl, Sailor, Captain, Sailors
Bon Voyage
Sailors, Passengers
You’re The Top
Reno, Billy
Reprise: Easy To Love
Hope
There’ll Always Be A Lady Fair (Sailor’s Chantey)
Sailor Quartet
It’s De-Lovely
Hope, Billy
Anything Goes
Reno, Chorus
ACT II
Public Enemy Number One
Captain, Purser, Chorus
Blow Gabriel Blow
Reno, Chorus
Goodbye, Little Dream, Goodbye
Hope
Be Like The Blue Bird
Moon
All Through The Night
Hope, Billy, Male Quartet
Buddie, Beware
Erma, Male Quartet
Finale
Reno, Evelyn, Billy, Chorus
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FUN FACTS ABOUT THE 1930's and Anything Goes
In the 1930s, big bands and swing music were popular, with Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, and Glenn Miller popular bandleaders. In the 1940s, the bands started to break up, and band singers like Frank Sinatra and Sarah Vaughan went out on their own. War songs became popular.
They enjoyed many forms of entertainment, particularly if they could do so inexpensively. With the addition of sound, movies became increasingly popular. Comedies, gangster movies, and musicals helped people forget their troubles.
Cole Porter was born in Indiana in 1891. A talented composer and songwriter, Porter handled both music and lyrics with ease, and conquered Broadway and Hollywood with his witty songs. His work includes "Night and Day" and "I've Got You Under My Skin." However, his life was marred by a 1937 riding accident that left him unable to walk. He died in California in 1964, having written more than 800 songs.
Vaudeville, a farce with music. In the United States the term connotes a light entertainment popular from the mid-1890s until the early 1930s that consisted of 10 to 15 individual unrelated acts, featuring magicians, acrobats, comedians, trained animals, jugglers, singers, and dancers. Anything Goes was created at the end of the Vaudeville era, and was one of the first to introduce a story to tie together the acts/dance numbers.
