This London revival, based on the multiple Tony Award-winning 2011 Broadway production, has opened at the Barbican Theatre, directed by Kathleen Marshall. If ever we were in need of a night of escapism, 18 months into a global pandemic seems as good a time as any.
Cole Porter’s classic musical Anything Goes, which originally opened on Broadway in 1934, was seen as an entertaining diversion from a time when the USA was still reeling from the Great Depression.
Fast forward nearly 90 years and it serves much the same function today – it’s the perfect tonic for these troubled times we find ourselves in.
For one evening, this beautifully-delivered musical makes it feel like everything is going to be ok again. Shows of this quality rarely open in