Anything Goes
August 19-25
Cole Porter’s hilarious musical comedy Anything Goes debuted nearly 90 years ago and was last seen on our stage in 1999. In this tap-dancing romp on the high seas, two unlikely pairs on the S.S. American set sail for true love and a boatload of comedic chaos. Unforgettable songs include “I Get a Kick Out of You,” “You’re the Top” and the showstopping title tune, “Anything Goes.” Come aboard for some good old-fashioned fun!
Music and Lyrics by COLE PORTER
Performance time 8:15 p.m. nightly
About the Show
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Marcia Milgrom Dodge
Director
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Jared Grimes
Choreographer
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Ben Whiteley
Music Director / Conductor
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Edward E. Haynes Jr.
Scenic Design
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Tristan Raines
Costume Design
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Rob Denton
Lighting Design
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John Shivers
Co-Sound Design
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David Patridge
Co-Sound Design
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Kylee Loera
Video Design
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Kelley Jordan
Wig Design
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Kelsey Tippins
Production Stage Manager
Cast
JEANNA DE WAAL
Reno Sweeney
Muny: Mary Poppins. Jeanna originated and received a Drama Desk nomination for the title role in Diana The Musical on Broadway and Netflix. Other Broadway credits include Sweeney Todd (star-cast standby), Kinky Boots (Lauren) and American Idiot (Heather). Off-Broadway, Jeanna co-starred in two-hander Orwell in America (59E59 Theaters) and Carrie (Chris Hargensen, MCC). Other credits include Waitress (Dawn) and Finding Neverland (Mary Barrie), both directed by Diane Paulus (American Repertory Theater), We Will Rock You (London’s West End) and the national tour of Wicked (Glinda).
JAY ARMSTRONG JOHNSON
Billy Crocker
Muny: Newsies; 42nd Street; Hello, Dolly!; Pirates, or Gilbert & Sullivan Plunder’d. Broadway: Parade, The Phantom of the Opera, On the Town, Hands on a Hardbody, Catch Me If You Can, Hair. Off Broadway/New York credits: Parade (City Center); To My Girls (2ST); Scotland, PA; Darling Grenadine (Roundabout); A Chorus Line (City Center); Candide (NYCO); Sweeney Todd (NY Philharmonic); Babes in Toyland (Carnegie Hall); The Most Happy Fella (NY City Center Encores!); Fire and Air (CSC); The Mad Ones; Working (Prospect Theater Company, Drama Desk Award); Wild Animals You Should Know (MCC); 35mm: A Musical Exhibition. TV/film: Quantico (Will Olsen), Sex and the City 2, Law & Order: SVU.
KEVIN CHAMBERLIN
Moonface Martin
Broadway: Claudia Shear’s Dirty Blonde, Seussical the Musical and The Addams Family (all earning Tony nominations), Amos Hart in Chicago, the revival of Terrance McNally’s The Ritz opposite Rosie Perez, the Wizard in Wicked, My Favorite Year, Abe Lincoln in Illinois and Triumph of Love. Kevin recently won the Helen Hayes Award in Guys and Dolls at Kennedy Center. Film: Die Hard With a Vengeance, In and Out, Suspect Zero, Taking Woodstock (directed by Ang Lee), Lucky Number Slevin, The Road to Perdition (directed by Sam Mendes), Christmas With the Kranks, Trick, The Prom (co-starring Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman). TV: Duster (Max), Outer Range, The Really Loud Family, Grace and Frankie, Modern Family, Heroes, CSI: New York, Frasier, Nip/Tuck, Without A Trace, Law & Order: SVU, Jessie.
GEORGE ABUD
Lord Evelyn Oakleigh
is a proud Arab American actor. Muny: 1776. Broadway: Marinetti in Lempicka, directed by Rachel Chavkin (OBC recording); The Band’s Visit, starring Katrina Lenk and Tony Shalhoub (Daytime Emmy Award, OBC recording); The Visit, starring Chita Rivera and Roger Rees (OBC recording). Off-Broadway: The Beautiful Lady, directed by Anne Bogart (La MaMa); Nerd Face in Emojiland (Drama Desk nomination, OOBC recording, The Duke on 42nd); The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, alongside Raúl Esparza; Nathan The Wise, opposite F. Murray Abraham; Ibsen’s Peer Gynt; Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Allegro, directed by John Doyle (Classic Stage Company); Cornelia Street, opposite Norbert Leo Butz; The Band’s Visit, directed by David Cromer (Atlantic Theater Company); Lolita, My Love, opposite Robert Sella (York Theatre Company). Regional: Richard Nixon in The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical, directed by Christopher Ashley (La Jolla Playhouse, Craig Noel Award for Outstanding Featured Performance in a Musical).
KIMBERLY IMMANUEL
Hope Harcourt
Broadway: Back to the Future (Swing, OBC). National tours: Wicked (Nessarose), Hadestown (Dance captain, swing, u/s Eurydice, Fates), White Christmas (Ensemble). Off-Broadway: Pacific Overtures, The Fantasticks, Heartbreak House. Select regional: Godspell (Berkshire Theatre Group), 42nd Street (Drury Lane Theatre, The Ordway, BWW Dancer of the Decade Award), Singin’ in the Rain (La Mirada Theatre, Ovation Award Nomination), Chasing Rainbows (Paper Mill Playhouse), Waterfall (Pasadena Playhouse, The 5th Avenue Theatre). BFA, NYU.
ADRIANNA HICKS
Erma
Broadway: Some Like It Hot (Sugar), Six (Aragon), The Color Purple revival (swing), Disney’s Aladdin (Fortune Teller). Tour/regional: Six (Aragon), The Color Purple (Celie), Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins), Grease (Rizzo), The Wiz (Dorothy), Ragtime (Sarah) International: Sister Act (Germany), Dirty Dancing (Germany). Grammy Award winner (principal vocalist, Best Musical Theater Album) for Some Like It Hot.
ANN HARADA
Mrs. Evangeline Harcourt
has appeared at The Muny in High School Musical, 42nd Street, Mamma Mia!, Gypsy, Matilda and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. She was first known for Avenue Q (Christmas Eve) on Broadway and in London’s West End. Other Broadway: Into the Woods, Rogers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Les Misérables, 9 to 5: The Musical, Seussical, M. Butterfly. Recent off-Broadway: The Welkin, Dear World, Fairycakes, Emojiland, I Married an Angel, Pacific Overtures, Brooklynite. Regional: world premiere of Babbitt (La Jolla Playhouse). TV: Schmigadoon! (Florence Menlove/Madam Frau), Smash (Linda, the stage manager), Blue Eye Samurai (Mama), Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (Matsuye), Alma’s Way (Rose, the park worker), Blue Bloods (IAB Lt. Sloan), The Jim Gaffigan Show, Indoor Boys.
LARA TEETER
Elisha J. Whitney
Muny: Singin’ In the Rain (Don Lockwood), Wizard of Oz (Scarecrow), Oklahoma! (Will Parker), Hairspray (Wilbur Turnblad), Beauty and the Beast (Lumiere), The Little Mermaid (Scuttle). Broadway: On Your Toes (Junior Dolan), Seven Brides for Seven Bothers (Caleb), Happy New Year (Vixon), Pirates of Penzance (Dance Captain, Swing). National tours: Oklahoma! (Will Parker), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Caleb), Singin’ in the Rain (Don Lockwood), Wizard of Oz (Scarecrow). Professor, head of musical theatre at Webster University’s Sargent Conservatory of Theatre Arts.
ERIC JORDAN YOUNG
Captain
Muny: Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Cogsworth, 2023), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Jacob/Potiphar, 2022). Broadway: Ragtime (1998), Ragtime (2009), The Look of Love, Chicago, Seussical the Musical (Wick #1, original cast). Off-Broadway/regional: Neighbors, Dessa Rose, Little Fish, Sideshow (Helen Hayes Award), Ragtime, Jesus Christ Superstar, Sammy & Me. National tours: Chicago, Ragtime, Dreamgirls. Las Vegas: Cocktail Cabaret, Rock of Ages, Vegas the Show, Shakin’, Chicago, Starlight Express.
DANNY GARDNER
Ship’s Purser
Broadway: A Christmas Carol, Flying Over Sunset, Dames at Sea. Off-Broadway: The Opposite of Love (NewYorkRep), Cheek to Cheek (York Theater), Lady, Be Good! (City Center Encores!), The New York Summer Spectacular starring the Rockettes (Radio City), Time Step (New Victory Theater), Neurosis The Musical (DR2), Lyrics & Lyricists (92nd Street Y). National tours: White Christmas, 42nd Street, Here to Stay: The Gershwin Experience. Regional: Dial M for Murder (Geva Theater Center & Dallas Theater Center), Crazy For You (Signature Theater), Singin’ in the Rain (Marriott Lincolnshire), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, A Gentleman’s Guide … (The Engeman Theater), The Music Man (Asolo Repertory Theater), Mary Poppins (Theater Under the Stars), Between the Lines (Kansas City Rep), Show Boat (Goodspeed Opera House).
SPENCER JONES
Spit
The Muny: The King and I, Spamalot, Shrek the Musical, South Pacific, Tarzan, Seussical, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, The Wizard of Oz, The Music Man, Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Newsies, Matilda, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, On Your Feet!, Chicago, Camelot, Sweeney Todd, Legally Blonde The Musical, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Chess, Rent. Broadway: Uncle Vanya. National tour: The King and I.
JOE CAPSTICK
Dippy
Select regional credits include 42nd Street (Drury Lane Theatre, Riverside Theatre), Holiday Inn (Marriott Theatre, Drury Lane Theatre), Funny Girl and White Christmas (MSMT), South Pacific (Fulton Theatre), Newsies (Paramount Theatre), The Drowsy Chaperone (George, Peninsula Players Theatre) and Kiss Me, Kate (Bill Calhoun, Skylight Music Theatre).
Creative Team
MARCIA MILGROM DODGE
Director
Broadway/Kennedy Center: Ragtime (Tony, Drama Desk, Astaire nominations, Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Director). Muny: Beautiful, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Meet Me in St. Louis, Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Young Frankenstein, The Buddy Holly Story, The Addams Family. Recent: Stephen Flaherty at Carnegie Hall (Director), Tokyo Disneyland’s Harmony in Color parade (American show Director). TV/Video: Two episodes of Disney+ Encore!; Sesame Street; Elmo’s Wild West. Regional highlights: Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Olney Theatre), The Secret Garden (Cincinnati Playhouse, Center Stage), Smokey Joe’s Cafe (Drury Lane, Jeff Award), Sherlock Holmes & The West End Horror (world premiere play co-written with Anthony Dodge, Bay Street Theater, Edgar nomination). NYC: Closer Than Ever (Cherry Lane), Romance in Hard Times (Public Theater).
JARED GRIMES
Choreographer
As a choreographer, Jared’s work includes The Tap Dance Kid (NY City Center Encores!), Transformations (directed by Glenn Close), After Midnight (Broadway, Tap Math), Banana Shpeel (Cirque du Soleil), Jelly’s Last Jam, The Scottsboro Boys and Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Signature Theatre), 42nd Street (Ordway Center), as well as films The Performance (directed by Shira Piven) and Breaking Brooklyn (Lionsgate). Broadway productions as an actor include Funny Girl (Tony and Drama Desk nominations), After Midnight, A Soldier’s Play. Off-Broadway: Radio City New York Spring Spectacular. Film/TV appearances as an actor include If (Paramount), Swing Kids (Annapurna Films), The Marc Pease Experience, Manifest (NBC), Boardwalk Empire (HBO). Grimes has won Broadway’s Astaire Award, a Helen Hayes Award and Chicago’s Jeff Award for Best Choreography.
BEN WHITELEY
Music Director
Muny: The Sound of Music; Singin’ in the Rain; A Chorus Line; 42nd Street; My Fair Lady; The Addams Family; Spamalot; Pirates!; Beauty and the Beast; Kiss Me, Kate; Oklahoma!; The Music Man; Meet Me in St. Louis; South Pacific. SLSO: A Little Sondheim Music and A Celebration of Muny 100. Music Director for 1776 (NY City Center Encores!). Broadway/national tours: Hello, Dolly!; A Christmas Story; The Addams Family; Spamalot; The Full Monty; Cats (final Broadway performance); Grand Hotel; Falsettos; Big. Other select credits: Sail Away (Carnegie Hall), A Christmas Story (MSG), Fiddler on the Roof, Something Rotten! (Sacramento Music Circus), Carousel (NY Philharmonic/PBS), 31 NY City Center Encores! productions, Paper Mill Playhouse, 5th Avenue Theatre, University of Michigan, Three Irish Tenors. Recordings: Allegro, Boardwalk Empire.