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The action begins in a smokey Manhattan bar shortly before moving onboard the SS American. Stage Manager ...... Keely Welsh Assistant Stage Managers ...... Alice Barnett, Marc Benson It is 1934. Audio Crew ...... Brian Kenny, Ethan Millard, Nick Mitanoff Carpentry Crew ...... Joshua Chudziak, Stacey Ingham, ACT ONE Michelle Inksetter, Tyler Ironside, Mitcheal Lonsdale, John Page, Kevin Reynolds, Overture Derek Wray I Get A Kick Out Of You ...... Reno Head Electrician ...... Daniel Van Amelsvoort There’s No Cure Like Travel ...... Girl, Sailor, Captain, Purser & Male Quartet Lighting Crew ...... Cedric Daros, Andrew Deardon, Matt Bon Voyage ...... Sailors and Chorus Field, Lucas Park, Catherine Smulders, You’re The Top ...... Reno & Billy James Walsh, Lucas Wilson Music and Lyrics by Easy to Love ...... Billy Production Assistants ...... Michael Coulter, Jasmyne Leisemer Original Book by Guy Bolton, P.G. Wodehouse, The Crew Song ...... Whitney Properties Crew ...... Rebecca Berg, Andrew Bravener, Katrina and McPhee, Matthew Pannell, Jenna Purnell, There’ll Always Be A Lady Fair ...... Male Quartet Jordon Rutherford, Johnny Woo New Book by Timothy Crouse and John Weidman Friendship ...... Reno & Moon Scenic Paint Crew ...... Cristin Barr, Molly Cramer, Laura Grandfi eld, It’s De-lovely ...... Billy & Hope Skylar Hillier, Shakira Kissoon, February 16 – 27, 2010 Anything Goes ...... Reno & Chorus Jessica McRandall, Lisa Young Wardrobe Crew ...... Jessica Bishop, Leona Czaplinska, INTERMISSION Danielle Demeny, Alice Ferreyra, Hannah Gordon, Chelsea Reinders, Katrina Sorg, Katherine Theriault ACT TWO Technical Assistants ...... Michael Cordeau & Danielle Couture Entr’acte Public Enemy Number One ...... Captain, Purser & Chorus RUNNING CREW Blow, Gabriel, Blow ...... Reno & Chorus Goodbye, Little Dream, Goodbye ...... Hope Crew Chief ...... Derek Wray Be Like The Blue Bird ...... Moon Live Mix ...... Nick Mitanoff All Through The Night ...... Billy, Hope & Male Quartet Lighting Board Operator ...... Lucas Park The Gypsy In Me ...... Evelyn Audio Playback ...... Brian Kenny Buddie, Beware ...... Erma & Sailors Stage Hands ...... Tyler Ironside, John Page Finale (I Get A Kick Out Of You)You)...... Reno,...... Reno, Evelyn, Billy, Hope & Chorus Deck Audio ...... Michael Coulter, Jenna Purnell Follow Spots ...... Andrew Deardon, Matt Field Running Time: Dressers ...... Leona Czaplinska, Alice Ferreyra Director Musical Director Act One – 1 Hour 20 Minutes Scot Denton David Warrack Act Two – 45 Minutes Professional Wardrobe Assistance by Lindsay Code & Melinda Dempster Choreographer Set Designer Stephen Greig Denise Lisson

Costume Designer Lighting Designer Kelly Wolf Steve Lucas

Sound Designer Music Production Todd Charlton Alan Poaps DIRECTOR’S NOTES CAST (in order of appearance) CAST

In the original book for Anything Goes the story concerned a shipwreck and its Elisha Whitney ...... Constant Bernard impact on some offbeat characters. But before Anything Goes could go into Fred the Bartender ...... Aaron Sax rehearsal, a major sea disaster took place off the coast of New Jersey. The Morro Piano Player ...... Courtney Simpson Castle burned and 134 people lost their lives. Shipwrecks had suddenly become a Billy Crocker ...... Jonathan Cullen highly sensitive area for songs and humour. Vinton Freedley, the producer, prevailed Reno Sweeney ...... Nicole Power upon Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse to revise the libretto. This was the fi rst time Malia Constant Sean Hayley Katie Ryan Captain ...... Chris LaFleur that Lindsay and Crouse worked together, starting a partnership that became one Becker Bernard Blakeley Blyth Bromley Brown of the most successful in the American theatre, and built on the solid foundation Purser ...... Phil Skala of one of the outstanding musical comedies of the 1930s. Anything Goes, with Reporter # 1 ...... Hilary Wilson music and lyrics by Cole Porter, debuted in 1934 at the Neil Simon Theatre on Reporter # 2 ...... Aaron Sax Broadway with Ethel Merman as Reno Sweeney. Merman would go on to star in fi ve Photographer ...... Brent Yorke of his musicals – Porter loved her loud, brassy voice, and wrote many numbers that Minister ...... Derek MacDougall featured her strengths. Luke ...... Keenan Viau John ...... Michael Sousa Sean Wesley Jonathan Linnea Genevieve Judy Anything Goes has been revived several times in the United States and Britain and Purity ...... Bethany Kovarik* Cage Colford Cullen Currie-Roberts Dufour Kovacs has been fi lmed twice. It and Porgy and Bess are the only 1930s musicals that are still regularly revived. In the 1962 revival the script incorporated several of the Chastity ...... Katie Bromley changes from the movie versions and songs from other Porter shows were included, Charity ...... Aly Workman notably, “It’s De-Lovely.” In the1987 revival, the book was updated, the song “Easy Virtue ...... Hayley Blyth to Love” was added, and original songs were redistributed; Evelyn was now singing Hope Harcourt ...... Genevieve Dufour “The Gypsy in Me”, formerly one of Hope’s numbers. Evangeline Harcourt ...... Andrea O’Brien Lord Evelyn Oakleigh ...... Chris Tsujiuchi Bethany Chris Derek Anthony Glen Andrea Cole Porter was a prolifi c songwriter, beginning at Yale where full-scale productions FBI Agent # 1 ...... Sean Cage were staged several times a year. Most of these shows were zany musicals that were Kovarik Lafl eur MacDougall MacPherson Mills O’Brien FBI Agent # 2 ...... Matt Villemaire complicated and rallied around the superiority or sexual prowess of Yale men and were intended, naturally, for a Yale audience. He left Yale with a legacy of over 300 Erma ...... Judy Kovacs songs, including six full-scale productions. Porter had spent a year at the Harvard Moonface Martin ...... Anthony MacPherson Law School in 1913 before he transferred into Arts and Sciences. Apparently a law Sailor Quartet ...... Ryan Brown, Glen Mills, school dean, in frustration over Porter’s lack of success in the classroom, suggested Iain Stewart, Wesley Colford that he “not waste his time” studying law, but instead focus on his music. Passengers ...... Linnea Currie-Roberts, Jocelyn Regina, Hilary Fortunately, Porter took his advice. Wilson, Derek MacDougall, Aaron Sax, Sean Cage, Keenan Viau, Michael Sousa, Matt Nicole Jocelyn Jordy Jennifer Aaron Courtney Power Regina Rolfe Rooney Sax Simpson It has been a treat watching our students bring this charming and resilient musical Villemaire, Jennifer Rooney, Malia Becker, Jordy Rolfe, Courtney Simpson to the stage – the magical dance numbers, the wacky scenes and those remarkable songs. They have responded to the show’s challenges with energy and enthusiasm. Sailors ...... Ryan Brown, Brent Yorke, Glens Mills, Ian Stewart, Wesley Colford, Sean Blakeley Thank you David and Stephen for the gifts of your experience and, of course, your sense of humour. Old lady in wheelchair ...... Jordy Rolfe * Dance Captain - Scot Denton MUSICIANS Phil Michael Iain Chris Keenan Matthew Skala Sousa Stewart Tsujiuchi Viau Villemaire Andy Ballantyne ...... Woodwind The production of Anything Goes has been made possible Al Cross ...... Percussion through the generosity of Michael Caine Tamara Hrycak ...... Violin Steve Lucas ...... Bass Guitar Anything Goes is produced by arrangement with, and the music and dialogue Gord Meyers ...... Trombone material furnished by TAMS-WHITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC., New York, N.Y. Shawn Moody ...... Trumpet The services of Scot Denton by special permission of Kim Ratcliffe ...... Banjo Hilary Aly Brent Wilson Workman Yorke Canadian Actors’ Equity Association. Tom Skublics ...... Woodwinds