Anything Goes 1930
Madcap romance and mistaken identity on the high seas! Arguably Cole Porter's most popular musical. This show very nearly did not make it to Broadway. The original storyline told of a bomb threat, shipwreck and high jinx on a desert island. Just weeks before the opening, there was a terrible fire on an ocean liner so it was decided to re-write the show. The show name was changed from HARD TO GET to ANYTHING GOES and the rest is theatrical history!
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Billy Crocker
About the Costume
Billy is wearing a light blue seersucker suit with bowtie. A perfect outfit aboard ship. Billy has several other changes of clothing including formal white dinner jacket outfit.
About the Character
Billy is in love with Hope Harcourt who is from a much higher social level than Billy. With help of gangster Moonface Martin and his old buddy Reno Sweeny, he manages to stowaway on the Liner AMERICAN so that he can attempt to break up the wedding plans for Hope and Sir Evelyn Oakley.
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Billy in disguise
About the Costume
Billy is concealed under a dress and a large brimmed hat with a veil.
About the Character
Because he is stowaway, Billy must resort to disguises to hide from the crew.
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Billy in disguise
About the Costume
Billy steals a uniform from a sailor as a disquise.
About the Character
Billy hides among the crew so he is not identified as a stowaway.
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Billy & Moonface in disguise
About the Costume
Billy in another of his disquises along with Moonface Martin.
About the Character
Stowing away and hiding out.
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Hope Harcourt
About the Costume
Here Hope is wearing a simple 1930\'s daydress. Hope has other outfits including a BON VOYAGE suit.
About the Character
Hope is the love interest of both Billy Crocker and Sir Evelyn Oakley to whom she is engaged.
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Hope Harcourt Wedding
About the Costume
1930\'s style draped wedding dress.
About the Character
Hope is all dressed up for her nuptials. She is to marry Sir Evelyn, but things happen to thwart those plans.
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Mrs. Harcourt
About the Costume
Mrs. Harcourt is seen here in a matronly 1930's style dress.
About the Character
Mrs. Harcourt is determined that her daughter Hope shall marry Sir Evelyn and have nothing to do with Billy Crocker.
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Zeke & Zach
About the Costume
Zeke and Zach are in full western gear...shirts, pants, vest, chaps, boots, hats, bandanas.
About the Character
These characters are taking the place of the two Chinese characters, Ching and Ling, who are usually in the show to make it feel more "politically correct".
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Reno Sweeny
About the Costume
Reno is seen here in a 1930's style daydress.
About the Character
Reno Sweeny is a lounge singer turned gospel singer who is an old friend of Billy Crocker. She would love to start a romance with Billy but instead helps him with plans to break up Hope's wedding to Sir Evelyn.
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Reno Sweeny
About the Costume
For the title number ANYTHING GOES, Reno dons a sailor style costume consisting of high waisted pants, sailor top and hat.
About the Character
Reno takes the vocal lead for the title song ANYTHING GOES.
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Reno Sweeny finale
About the Costume
Reno is wearing a cowgirl style outfit with skirt, vest, blouse, hat and boots.
About the Character
Reno is disguised as a girl who Sir Evelyn was supposed to have had an affair with in order to spoil the wedding of Hope and Sir Evelyn. (This is usually a Chinese girl).
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Gemstones
About the Costume
Reno and the Gemstones are dressed in matching suits consisting of jacket, skirt, blouse and hat. These are there "arrival" outfits.
About the Character
The Gemstones are Reno Sweeney's backup singers. Usually these are known as The Angels and have "virtue" names. In this case there are 6 instead of the usual 4 and each has a gemstone name and dresses in matching color to the name.
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Gemstones
About the Costume
The girls are dressed here for BLOW, GABRIEL, BLOW wearing flashy body suits decorated in sequin with bolero jackets, matching tights and gloves. Not shown are ivory colored choir robes with colored collars that match each girl's costume.
About the Character
Reno and the Gemstones sing BLOW, GABRIEL, BLOW.
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Sir Evelyn Oakley
About the Costume
Sir Evelyn is wearing a white dinner jacket in this picture with Hope. He has several changes during the show.
About the Character
Sir Evelyn Oakley is a rich British lord who Hope's mother wishes for her to marry. It would seem that Sir Evelyn has a delicate constitution.
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Sir Evelyn Oakley
About the Costume
Sir Evelyn is wearing a smoking jacket having retired to his cabin for the evening. Reno is wearing a beaded 2 piece evening ensemble.
About the Character
In an attempt to have Sir Evelyn in a compromising position to make him look bad, Reno shows up in his cabin. This encounter ends up with the two being romantically involved.
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Elisha Whitney
About the Costume
Mr. Whitney is dressed in a blue blazer with tan trousers, shirt and conservative tie.
About the Character
Whitney is Billy's employer who expected that Billy was remaining in New York to conduct business and not traveling on the ship.
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Moonface Martin
About the Costume
Moonface is disguised as a member of the clergy in order to hide from the police wearing a priest's black suit, clerical collar and a preacher's hat. The priest is wearing a cassock with collar and hat.
About the Character
Moonface Martin is Public Enemy #13...not too high on the list...but is hiding out from the law.
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Passsengers
About the Costume
Passengers are dressed in various 1930's style dresses and suits.
About the Character
Travelers aboard the liner AMERICAN
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Passengers
About the Costume
Closeup of some of the passengers costumes.
About the Character
Passengers on liner American.
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Captain and Purser
About the Costume
Both are in dress white uniforms.
About the Character
The Captain and the Purser are in charge of the ship, crew, and passengers.
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Sailors
About the Costume
Sailors are in white middys, pants, hats, and black ties.
About the Character
The sailors are the ship crew members.
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Sailor Girls
About the Costume
The sailor girls are wearing two different although similar costumes. Both costumes have high waisted white pants and gob hats. Some have blue sailor middys and the others have striped shirts.
About the Character
The chorus line of girl sailors appears in the title number ANYTHING GOES.
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Boarding the Ship
About the Costume
Mrs. Harcourt, Hope, and Sir Evelyn are dressed for boarding the ship. Mrs. Harcourt is wearing a three piece suit trimmed with fur collar and cuffs and a wide brimmed hat. Hope is wearing a matching jacket and skirt with blouse and hat. Sir Evelyn Oakley is wearing a three piece tweed suit.
About the Character
Mrs. Harcourt is Hope's mother who is instrumental in the courtship of Hope and Sir Evelyn.
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YOU'RE THE TOP
About the Costume
Billy is wearing his blue seersucker suit and Reno is in a mint green beaded evening dress.
About the Character
Billy Crocker and Reno Sweeny sing a song about how they feel about each other.
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IT\'S DELOVELY
About the Costume
Billy is wearing matching vest and pants while Hope is in a dress with silver bodice and mint green flowing chiffon skirt.
About the Character
Billy and Hope sing about how wonderful their life together could be.
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IT'S DELOVELY
About the Costume
Girls are wearing dresses with silver bodices and blue flowing chiffon skirts while their male dance partners were in tuxedoes.
About the Character
In this production there were 4 couples in the dance.
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ANYTHING GOES
About the Costume
Sailor costumes abound in this title number for the show.
About the Character
Reno leads the vocals and the tap dance.
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PUBLIC ENEMY #1
About the Costume
The ship's passengers are all in their finery...evening gowns, tuxedoes, and dinner jackets when they give thanks for having a celebrity on board the ship. All be it, that celebrity is a criminal sought by the law.
About the Character
Passengers are gathered in the lounge.
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BLOW, GABRIEL, BLOW
About the Costume
Reno and the Gemstones have matching embellished body oufits with sequin strip skirts and bolero jackets (colored tights and gloves were added by client).
About the Character
Reno and the girls sing about having given up sin and moved on to goodness.
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BE LIKE THE BLUEBIRD
About the Costume
Moonface and Billy are in costumes from PUBLIC ENEMY.
About the Character
Moonface sings about the bluebird who cannot sing...of course, neither can Moonface...while they are being held in the ship's brig.
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