- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Enchanted Evenings
- Chapter One Introduction: Setting the Stage
- Chapter Two Show Boat: In the Beginning
- Chapter Three Anything Goes: Songs Ten, Book Three
- Chapter Four Porgy and Bess: Broadway Opera
- Chapter Five On Your Toes and Pal Joey: Dance Gets into the Act and “Sweet Water from a Foul Well”
- Chapter Six The Cradle will Rock: A Labor Musical for Art's Sake
- Chapter Seven Lady in the Dark and One Touch of Venus: The Broadway Stranger and His American Dreams
- Chapter Eight Carousel: The Invasion of the Integrated Musical
- Chapter Nine Kiss Me, Kate: The Taming of Cole Porter
- Chapter Ten Guys and Dolls and The Most Happy Fella: The Greater Loesser
- Chapter Eleven My Fair Lady: <i>From</i> Pygmalion <i>to Cinderella</i>
- Chapter Twelve West Side Story: The Very Model of a Major Musical
- Chapter Thirteen Happily Ever After West Side Story with Sondheim
- Appendix A: Sources, Published Librettos, and Vocal Scores
- Appendix B: Long Runs
- Appendix C: The Forty Longest Running Book Musicals on Broadway
- Appendix D: Show Boat
- Appendix E: Anything Goes
- Appendix F: Porgy and Bess: <i>Songs, Arias, and Themes</i>
- Appendix G: On Your Toes: <i>Broadway 1936 and Broadway Revival 1983</i>
- Appendix H: <i>Pal Joey</i> Broadway 1940 and Broadway Revival 1952
- Appendix I: The Cradle Will Rock: <i>Broadway 1937</i>
- Appendix J: Lady in the Dark: <i>Broadway 1941</i>
- Appendix K: One Touch of Venus: <i>Broadway 1943</i>
- Appendix L: Carousel: <i>Broadway 1945</i>
- Appendix M: Kiss Me, Kate: <i>Broadway 1948</i>
- Appendix N: Guys and Dolls: <i>Broadway 1950</i>
- Appendix O: The Most Happy Fella: <i>Broadway 1956</i>
- Appendix P: My Fair Lady: <i>Broadway 1956</i>
- Appendix Q: West Side Story: <i>Broadway 1957</i>
- Appendix R: Follies: <i>Broadway 1971 and London Revival 1987</i>
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Anything Goes: Songs Ten, Book Three
Anything Goes: Songs Ten, Book Three
- Chapter:
- (p.41) Chapter Three Anything Goes: Songs Ten, Book Three
- Source:
- Enchanted Evenings
- Author(s):
Geoffrey Block
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Anything Goes was Cole Porter's first major hit. Anything Goes does not conform to the organic “Wagnerian” model of some pre- and post-Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals beginning with Show Boat. Instead it presents a striking parallel with the generally less ostentatiously organic world of Baroque opera, in which great stars and show-stopping arias can ensure at least short-term success. In any of its forms, including the 1962 Anything Goes that held the stage for almost three decades and the 1987 reincarnation with its new book and numerous interpolated songs, Anything Goes still works.
Keywords: Broadway musical, musical theater, Cole Porter, Baroque opera, Show Boat
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Enchanted Evenings
- Chapter One Introduction: Setting the Stage
- Chapter Two Show Boat: In the Beginning
- Chapter Three Anything Goes: Songs Ten, Book Three
- Chapter Four Porgy and Bess: Broadway Opera
- Chapter Five On Your Toes and Pal Joey: Dance Gets into the Act and “Sweet Water from a Foul Well”
- Chapter Six The Cradle will Rock: A Labor Musical for Art's Sake
- Chapter Seven Lady in the Dark and One Touch of Venus: The Broadway Stranger and His American Dreams
- Chapter Eight Carousel: The Invasion of the Integrated Musical
- Chapter Nine Kiss Me, Kate: The Taming of Cole Porter
- Chapter Ten Guys and Dolls and The Most Happy Fella: The Greater Loesser
- Chapter Eleven My Fair Lady: <i>From</i> Pygmalion <i>to Cinderella</i>
- Chapter Twelve West Side Story: The Very Model of a Major Musical
- Chapter Thirteen Happily Ever After West Side Story with Sondheim
- Appendix A: Sources, Published Librettos, and Vocal Scores
- Appendix B: Long Runs
- Appendix C: The Forty Longest Running Book Musicals on Broadway
- Appendix D: Show Boat
- Appendix E: Anything Goes
- Appendix F: Porgy and Bess: <i>Songs, Arias, and Themes</i>
- Appendix G: On Your Toes: <i>Broadway 1936 and Broadway Revival 1983</i>
- Appendix H: <i>Pal Joey</i> Broadway 1940 and Broadway Revival 1952
- Appendix I: The Cradle Will Rock: <i>Broadway 1937</i>
- Appendix J: Lady in the Dark: <i>Broadway 1941</i>
- Appendix K: One Touch of Venus: <i>Broadway 1943</i>
- Appendix L: Carousel: <i>Broadway 1945</i>
- Appendix M: Kiss Me, Kate: <i>Broadway 1948</i>
- Appendix N: Guys and Dolls: <i>Broadway 1950</i>
- Appendix O: The Most Happy Fella: <i>Broadway 1956</i>
- Appendix P: My Fair Lady: <i>Broadway 1956</i>
- Appendix Q: West Side Story: <i>Broadway 1957</i>
- Appendix R: Follies: <i>Broadway 1971 and London Revival 1987</i>
- Select Bibliography
- Index