Anything Goes, with music and
lyrics by Cole Porter, sets sail April 27th at the Little Theatre on
the Bay, 2100 Sherman Avenue, North Bend. Performances will be Fridays
and Saturdays at 8 P.M. through May 19th with Sunday matinees May 6th,
13th (Mother’s Day) and 20th. Sunday Matinees begin at 2 P.M.
The story: Sailing on the luxury liner, "The S.S. American", are (1) a
gangster on the run posing as a minister, (2) a former evangelist
turned nightclub singer traveling with her four tap dancing "Angels",
(3) a society miss who is engaged to an English gentleman who is also
on board, and (4) her ex-boyfriend who stows away on the ship to try
and win her back. A series of comical mistaken identities take place
as the passengers and crew sing and dance their way across the
Atlantic to songs from the incomparable Cole Porter including "It's
De-Lovely"," Friendship", "I Get A Kick Out Of You", "All Through The
Night", "You're The Top", and, of course, "Anything Goes".
Byrell Justice, whose LTOB credits include One Flew Over the
Cuckoo’s Nest, Biloxi Blues, and
Of Mice and Men,
directs an accomplished cast. Music Director Steve Simpkins has
assembled an all-star seven piece combo drawn from LTOB's own
Little Ole Big Band. The renowned Janice Kendall is the show's
Vocal Director. The actors stay light on their feet with Choreography
by Kay Pace.
Principle characters are:
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Reno Sweeny played by Cassie Justice,
who has played such characters as Sr. Amnesia in Nunsense II,
III, and IV, Kate Jerome in Brighton Beach Memoirs, and
Queen Guenevere in Camelot.
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Billy Crocker played by Alexander
Rich, whose stage time includes Leonardo in Much Ado About
Nothing, You Can't Take It With You, and Damn Yankees.
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Hope Hartcourt is played by Amelia
Edd who you'll recognize as having been Maria from West Side
Story, Lady Larken in Once Upon A Mattress and LTOB's own
Little Ole Big Band.
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Tim Novotny, well known as News
Editor for KCBY-TV, who played Slim in Of Mice and Men, Capt.
Hook in Peter Pan, and Officer Bill in Lobby Hero,
will portray Sir Evelyn Oakleigh, the English gentleman who "just
doesn't get it".
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Moonface Martin is played by Byrell
Justice who played Ross Gardiner in Visiting Mr. Green, Uncle
Louie in Lost In Yonkers, and George in Of Mice and Men,
and
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Bonnie is done beautifully by Anna
Weidemiller, last seen as Jennifer Rumson in Paint Your Wagon
and previously as Sarah in Guys and Dolls and Marti in
Grease.
Other performers include Doris Smith,
Mindy Freeman, Alyssa Birrer, and Camille Deming as Reno's Angels.
George Nixon as Elisha J. Whitney, Yvonne Frey as Mrs. Wadsworth T.
Hartcourt, James Kemp as The Purser, and Jim Thornton as The Bishop.
Altogether there are about 30 people in this wonderfully talented
cast.
This show is guaranteed to be a sure fire hit so get your tickets
early! To purchase tickets,
please call Little Theatre on the Bay at
756-4336 or send an email to tickets@ltob.net, (click here for more information).
Please include a telephone number, as ticket orders are completed by
telephone, not by email.
said about "Anything
Goes"
at LTOB