Cole Porter’s musical Anything Goes premieres at New York’s Alvin Theater. Anything Goes is set aboard the ocean liner S. S. American, where nightclub singer/evangelist Reno Sweeney is en route from New York to England. Her pal Billy Crocker has stowed away to be near his love, Hope Harcourt, but the problem is Hope is engaged to the wealthy Lord Evelyn Oakleigh. Anything goes is a classic show that has been re-adapted multiple times, and used as a high school play across the nation.
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