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| Recording information MSR Studios NYC 06 20 2011 The Roundabout Theatre Company s 2011 Broadway revival of Anything Goes offers a fresh take on Cole Porter s 1934 hit musical while keeping close to the freewheeling spirit of the original The production was a huge success winning Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Musical and for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical going to Sutton Foster as the singing evangelist Reno Sweeney The album debuted at the top of Billboard s Cast Album Chart and offers ample evidence that the enthusiasm the revival has generated is fully deserved The spotlight is on Foster who brings considerable glamour to a role created by Ethel Merman She skillfully manages the trick of conveying the character s essential sweetness and vulnerability while still channeling some of Merman s humor and brassy confidence She s immensely appealing in songs like I Get a Kick Out of You You re the Top and Anything Goes and she cuts loose in Blow Gabriel Blow The supporting cast is consistently strong which is essential in an ensemble piece like this that s packed with eccentric high-profile characters As Billy Crocker the guy who finally gets his girl Colin Donnell has an appealing charm and he and Laura Osnes as Hope Harcourt generate some heat in duets like Easy to Love a song that had been cut from the original production It s De-Lovely and All Through the Night Osnes poignant solo Goodbye Little Dream Goodbye is one of the album s highlights Joel Grey shines in the crucial but relatively small role of Moonface Martin This production which uses a book updated by Timothy Crouse and John Weidman for a 1987 revival beefs up the role and gives Grey the chance to sing Friendship a song lifted from Porter s show Dubarry Was a Lady with Foster as well as his standard solo Be Like the Bluebird One of the special attractions of this album is the inclusion of several of Porter s songs i |
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