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Anything Goes Cast to Perform Live on ABC’s The View on May 12

Sutton Foster and company in Anything Goes
(© Joan Marcus)
Sutton Foster and company in Anything Goes
(© Joan Marcus)

2011 Tony Award nominee Sutton Foster and company members from the Broadway revival of Anything Goes will perform the tap dancing finale of Act 1, live on ABC’s The View on Thursday, May 12. The show airs from 11pm-noon EST.

The production, directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall, currently performs at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, and has been nominated for nine Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Musical.

The show features a score by Cole Porter, original book by P.G. Wodehouse & Guy Bolton and Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse, and a new book by Timothy Crouse and John Weidman. In the musical, the S.S. American heads out to sea, and etiquette and convention head out the portholes as two unlikely pairs set off on the course to true love.

In addition to Foster, who plays Reno Sweeney, the principal cast includes Joel Grey as Moonface Martin, John McMartin as Elisha Whitney, Jessica Walter as Evangeline Harcourt, Colin Donnell as Billy Crocker, Adam Godley as Lord Evelyn Oakleigh, Laura Osnes as Hope Harcourt, Jessica Stone as Erma, Walter Charles as Captain, Robert Creighton as Purser, Andrew Cao as Luke, and Raymond J. Lee as John.

Additional cast members include Clyde Alves, Ward Billeisen, Joyce Chittick, Nikki Renée Daniels, Margot De La Barre, Kimberly Fauré, Josh Franklin, Justin Greer, Daniel J. Edwards, Tari Kelly, Shina Ann Morris, Linda Mugleston, Kevin Munhall, Adam Perry, William Ryall, Jennifer Savelli, Anthony Wayne, Kristen Beth Williams.

For tickets and more information to the Broadway production of Anything Goes, click here.