Anything Goes For Opera Australia.

The Cole Porter classic Anything Goes will be Opera’s Australia’s musical collaboration with impresario John Frost in 2015. The musical won three Tony Awards during its most recent Broadway revival including Best Musical Revival and Choreography.

For the third year in a row a musical will be staged for two months in the Sydney Opera House – leaving no room during this period for Opera. The Sydney season will follow seasons in Melbourne and Brisbane.

The brand new production  of Anything Goes will be directed by Dean Bryant and choreographed by Andrew Hallsworth, with musical director Peter Casey, set and costume designer Dale Ferguson, lighting designer Matt Scott and sound designer Michael Waters.

“Anything Goes is a shining example of classic musical theatre, complete with amazing tap numbers, hilarious jokes, unlikely happy endings and of course, wonderful songs,” according to Opera Australia Artistic Director  Lyndon Terracini and producer John Frost. “After the overwhelming success of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific and The King and I, a revival of Anything Goes featuring the dazzling music of Cole Porter seemed the obvious choice. Since its Broadway premiere, it has become one of the best loved and most revived musicals of all time.”

There are plenty of more traditional productions during the rest of the year, dominated by Mozart, Puccini and Verdi.

Handa’s Opera on the Harbour will again be a highlight.

No doubt a spectacular set will be made for a lavish production of  Aida.

Other highlights are new productions of The Marriage of Figaro, and Faust starring Teddy Tahu Rhodes.

Back for the first time in many years is Turandot.

Returning  from more recent outings are La Boheme, The Magic Flute, Tosca, Madam Butterfly, La Traviata and  Don Carlos.

Anything Goes features a delightful story of madcap antics aboard the SS American. When the ocean liner embarks from New York to London, etiquette and convention get tossed out the portholes as two unlikely pairs set off on the course to find true love… proving that sometimes destiny needs a little help from a crew of singing sailors, an exotic disguise and some good old-fashioned blackmail.

This dazzling musical celebration, described by Ben Brantley of The New York Times as “a deluxe candy box of Cole Porter’s best songs,” features a hilarious tale of topsy-turvy relationships, mistaken identities and foiled plots, peppered with some of musical theatre’s most memorable standards including You’re The Top, De-Lovely, I Get A Kick Out Of You and of course the title song, Anything Goes.

SEASON DETAILS

Princess Theatre, Melbourne

Season:                                From 31 May, 2015

Performance Times:       Wed–Sat 7.30pm, Matinees Tues & Wed 1pm, Sat 2pm & Sun 3pm 

Price:                                     From $79.90*

Bookings:                            Ticketmaster.com.au or phone 1300 111 011

Groups of 10 or more call 1300 889 278

Lyric Theatre, QPAC, Brisbane

Season:                                From 28 July, 2015

Performance Times:       Wed–Sat 7.30pm, Matinees Tues, Wed & Sat 1.30pm & Sun 3pm 

Price:                                     From $79.90*

Bookings:                            qpac.com.au or phone 136 246

                                                Groups of 10 or more 07 3840 7466

Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House

Season:                                From 8 September, 2015

Performance Times:       Wed–Sat 7.30pm, Matinees Tues, Wed & Sat 1pm, Sun 3pm 

Price:                                     From $79.90*

Bookings:                            sydneyoperahouse.com or 9250 7777

Ticketmaster.com.au or phone 1300 723 038