Anything Goes



Anything Goes is a Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, and a collaboration on the book by multiple authors, including P.G. Wodehouse. The story is a love triangle aboard an ocean liner bound from New York City to London, where nightclub singers, mobsters, heiresses, and Royalty intermingle in a game of mistaken identities and cat and mouse.

The musical was spoofed with "Anyone's Nose", a segment of "Monsterpiece Theater" on Sesame Street, where a female monster sang parody lyrics to Porter's signature song from the musical Anything Goes, while Herry Monster, Elmo, and Telly danced with Grouch Glasses.

Songs preformed by the Muppets

 * "I Get a Kick Out of You" (Anything Goes)
 * - Wayne & Wanda, The Muppet Show, episode 110
 * - Ethel Mermaid on Sesame Street


 * "You're the Top" (Anything Goes)
 * - Kermit & Ethel Merman, The Muppet Show, episode 122

Connections

 * Louise Gold played Reno Sweeney in London
 * Bill McCutcheon played Moonface Martin in the 1987 Broadway revival.
 * Ethel Merman played Reno Sweeney in the original Broadway production
 * Leslie Uggams took over the role of Reno Sweeney in the 1987 Broadway revival