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Colin Donnell, Sutton Foster, Adam Godley, Joel Grey, John McMartin, Laura Osnes, Jessica Walter, et al. Set for Broadway’s Anything Goes

Sutton Foster
(© Laura Marie Duncan)
Sutton Foster
(© Laura Marie Duncan)

Full cast and creative team information has been announced for the Roundabout Theatre Company’s new Broadway production of the musical Anything Goes, which will play the Stephen Sondheim Theatre beginning on March 10, 2011 with an official opening scheduled for April 7.

Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall will direct and choreograph the production. 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 previously announced stars Sutton Foster as Reno Sweeney and Joel Grey as Moonface Martin, the cast will feature 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, Raymond J. Lee as John, John McMartin as Elisha Whitney, and Jessica Walter as Evangeline Harcourt.

Additional cast members will 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, and Kristen Beth Williams.

The creative team includes Rob Fisher (musical director), David Chase (dance arranger), Derek McLane (sets), Martin Pakledinaz (costumes), and Peter Kaczorowski (lighting), and Brian Ronan (sound).

To see TheaterMania’s behind-the-scenes video of the creation of the Roundabout Theatre Company’s advertising campaign for the production, click here.

To watch the Roundabout’s newly released commercial for Anything Goes, click here.

For more information on the show, click here.