I had just a baby - I had just finished breastfeeding before we started rehearsals.
Article content Really? Ethel Merman and Brad Pitt? Really.Īre you working on your breaks, too, Rachel? RY No, but it was sort of the same thing with this show. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. With that version of the show making a stop in Toronto, the National Post sat down with stars Rachel York, who plays evangelist-turned-lounge-singer Reno Sweeney, and Chuck Wagner, who plays Captain Elijiah Whitney, to discuss the failings of Hugh Jackman, filling Ethel Merman’s shoes and the Yale Fight Song. Supposedly the name of Cole Porter’s out-to-sea musical Anything Goes comes from an incident during a harried, last-minute rewrite of the 1934 show, when someone wondered how they were going to end the first act, and a producer exclaimed, “At this point, anything goes!” For a show that came together at the last minute, it’s had an awfully long tail, giving the world a handful of Porter’s biggest hits, including the title song and I Get a Kick Out of You, and being regularly remounted, including the most recent, Tony-winning incarnation by Roundabout Theatre in 2011. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected.
