THE SOLD OUT MUSICAL SENSATION
‘ANYTHING GOES’
RETURNS TO THE BARBICAN SUMMER 2022 & ANNOUNCES SPRING UK TOUR
TICKETS ON SALE FROM FRIDAY 19 NOVEMBER AT ANYTHINGGOESMUSICAL.CO.UK
The smash hit ‘show of the year’ ANYTHING GOES is sailing back to the Barbican Theatre next summer for an eight week return residency from 15 July until 3 September. Since ANYTHING GOES opened at the Barbican in July this year, audiences have been on their feet giving this multi–Tony Award winning show multiple standing ovations night after night. This spectacular show has been described as the “musical equivalent of sipping one glass of champagne after another” (The Times) and is “delightful, delicious, and as buoyant as helium” (Evening Standard).
ANYTHING GOES takes you back to the Golden Age of high society on the seas from the comfort of your seat. The lavish production has smashed multiple Box Office records at the Barbican Theatre including the single highest grossing performance week for a musical in the Barbican’s 39 year history and the highest sales across a weekend for a musical, as audiences flooded through the doors for the 15 week sold out season!
Now from spring 2022, audiences across the country will also get the chance to enjoy the truly spectacular, multi-Tony Award winning, “show of the year!” (★★★★★ Daily Telegraph), as the S.S American will be heading to theatres in Bristol, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Canterbury on its way to the Barbican! Casting will be announced soon.
Producer Sir Howard Panter said: “We are delighted to be back with the glorious Anything Goes musical at the Barbican next summer! We were thrilled with the response to this energetic and uplifting show – audiences just couldn’t get enough and to achieve 15 weeks sold out night after night and a gross of £717,000 in one week really is quite some feat! We are equally delighted to take this majestic show on tour across the UK, so audiences around the country can enjoy the glorious set design, breathtaking choreography and stage direction, and of course the wonderful score!”
ANYTHING GOES has music and lyrics by Cole Porter, an original book by P.G. Wodehouse & Guy Bolton with Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse and a new book by Timothy Crouse and John Weidman. This production is directed and choreographed by three time Tony Award Winner Kathleen Marshall.
When the S.S. American heads out to sea, etiquette and convention head out the portholes as two unlikely pairs set off on the course to true love… proving that sometimes destiny needs a little help from a crew of singing sailors, a comical disguise and some good old-fashioned blackmail. This hilarious musical romp across the Atlantic featuring a collection of some of theatre’s most memorable songs – including ‘I Get A Kick Out of You’, ‘Anything Goes’, ‘You’re the Top’, ‘Blow, Gabriel, Blow’, ‘It’s De-Lovely’, ‘Friendship’ and ‘Buddie Beware’ – will take you back to the Golden Age of high society on the seas. ANYTHING GOES is set to sail away with audiences all over again.
★★★★★
‘Makes you gasp in wonder and laugh till it hurts. Pure class’
Daily Telegraph
★★★★★
‘The show of the year. I would give it six stars if I could’
Daily Telegraph
★★★★★
’The musical equivalent of sipping one glass of champagne after another’
The Times
★★★★★
‘When a musical packs this much energy and spectacle, nothing else goes!’
Daily Mail
★★★★★
’Bubbly wit and stylish fun. It shimmers and sparkles’
The Times
★★★★★
‘Anything Goes offers the delirious delight of a musical in full sail’
Financial Times
CREATIVE TEAM
Kathleen Marshall – Director & Choreographer
Derek McLane – Set Designer
Jon Morrell – Costume Designer
Hugh Vanstone – Lighting Designer
Jonathan Deans – Sound Designer
Stephen Ridley – Music Supervisor
Dates: Venue:
11th – 16th April 2022 Bristol: Hippodrome Theatre
20th – 30th April 2022 Liverpool: Empire Theatre
11th – 21st May 2022 Edinburgh: Festival Theatre*
24th May – 4th June 2022 Canterbury: Marlowe Theatre**
15th July – 3rd September 2022 London: Barbican Theatre
*Tickets for Edinburgh will go on-sale from 26 November
** Tickets for Canterbury will go on sale from 29 November