Starring Sutton Foster as Reno Sweeney, alongside Robert Lindsay as Moonface Martin, Felicity Kendal as Evangeline Harcourt and Gary Wilmot as Elisha Whitney, the piece was filmed during its acclaimed run at the Barbican Theatre this past summer, which broke box office records. It will subsequently be available on BBC iPlayer.
The production will return for a new tour and Barbican run in 2022.
Director Kathleen Marshall and camera crews have spent the week filming the production, which also stars Robert Lindsay as Moonface Martin, Felicity Kendal as Evangeline Harcourt and Gary Wilmot as Elisha Whitney.
It will be shown in cinemas across the UK on November 28th and December 1st. Tickets for screenings go on sale next Friday, October 15, via AnythingGoesMusicalCinema.com.
She has appeared on Broadway as Fantine in LES MISERABLES; Norma in
Victor/Victoria (Drama Desk Award) with Julie Andrews; Marguerite in The
Scarlet Pimpernel; Miss Fancy in Sly Fox with Richard Dreyfuss; and
Christine Colgate in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels with Jonathan Pryce. She
appeared off-Broadway opposite Julie Andrews in Stephen Sondheim's
Putting It Together and in the Lincoln Center Theater production of
Dessa Rose. Most recently, Rachel appeared on Broadway in Disaster! and
Head Over Heels.
Haydn Gwynne (Billy Elliot) will replace Felicity Kendal in the role of Evangeline Harcourt from October 19th.
The production has also added two additional matinee performances on October 27th and November 3rd and will now play its final performance at the Barbican on November 6th.
As previously revealed, it stars Robert Lindsay, Felicity Kendal, Gary Wilmot and Sutton Foster (who replaces injured Megan Mullally) with Samuel Edwards as Billy Crocker, Nicole-Lily Baisden as Hope Harcourt, Carly Mercedes Dyer as Erma and Haydn Oakley as Lord Evelyn Oakleigh.
They will be joined by: Martin Callaghan (Ship's Purser), Jon Chew (John), Clive Hayward (Ship's Captain), Alistair So (Luke), Marc Akinfolarin, Simon Anthony, Georgie Ashford, Vivien Carter, Natalie Chua, Eamonn Cox, Jordan Crouch, Frances Dee, Charlene Ford, Selina Hamilton, Maddie Harper, Michael Lin, Robbie McMillan, Tom Partridge, Jack Wilcox, Alexandra Wright, George Beet, Gabrielle Cocca, Emily Ormiston and Liam Wrate.
Further casting has been announced for the West End revival of Anything Goes at the Barbican which will now preview from 5th June, with an opening night on the 17th and running to 22nd August. Following its London run It will also go on a very short tour to Dublin Bord Gais Energy Theatre (26 August -11 September) The Salford Lowry (15-25 September); the Southampton Mayflower (September 28 - October 2) and Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre (October 12-17 ) with tickets now on sale and casting for the tour still to be revealed
Felicity Kendal is making her musical theatre debut as Evangeline Harcourt with Gary Wilmot as Elisha Whitney who will join Megan Mullally (best known for playing Karen Walker in Will & Grace) will make her London musical theatre debut as Reno Sweeney with West End star Robert Lindsay Mullally as Moonface Martin with more casting news to follow.
Megan Mullally (best known for playing Karen Walker in Will & Grace) will make her London musical theatre debut as Reno Sweeney in the production . She has appeared in Broadway productions of Grease and Young Frankenstein, with London performances with her band Supreme Music Program at the Vaudeville Theatre in 2010.
West End star Robert Lindsay is set to star opposite Mullally as Moonface Martin. His many musical theare credits include appearing in London's Savoy Theatre in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels as well as winning Tony and Olivier Awards for his performances in Me and My Girl and Becket.
Further casting is to be announced with rehearsals set to begin in March.
The iconic musical has a book by Guy Bolton and P G Wodehouse, with music and lyrics by Cole Porter.
Cole Porter’s , multi-award winning musical comedy, transports you to the magical age of tap dancing and high society.When Billy Crocker discovers that his heart’s desire, debutante heiress Hope Harcourt is engaged to an English aristocrat, he stows away aboard the S.S. American to win her back. Aided by a string of eccentric passengers on board the luxurious transatlantic liner, can this web of love be untangled before they reach Southampton?
Musical standards include “You're the Top," "Blow, Gabriel, Blow," "It's De-Lovely," "I Get A Kick Out of You," and "Anything Goes.”
The creative team for the show includes Tony award winning set designer Derek McLane, lighting designer Neil Austin, sound designer Simon Baker, and music supervisor Stephen Ridley.
You can buy tickets from 10:00 am today for Anything Goes at the Barbican
