Anything Goes reviews starring Kerry Ellis – Barbican Theatre ★★★★

“An incandescent revival”

“Ellis is still a seductive presence – a sassy, wise-cracking temptress who finds the wistful subtext in opening number I Get A Kick Out of You, who leads cast and audience into musical theatre heaven in the tap dancing spectacular Anything Goes, and who understands that her job as Reno is to essentially steal, with a wink and a nod, every scene she’s in.”

“No question about it: this remains the best show in town.”

“If there’s one production I’d prescribe to a person who is allergic to musicals, this would be it.”

“Kerry Ellis is every bit as seductive as Reno Sweeney”

“Carly Mercedes Dyer still steals scenes as Moonface’s fast-talking moll, and Haydn Oakley twinkles as a toff addicted to the latest in American slang”

“A glorious, glittering frippery of precision-tooled escapism”

“Thank goodness: this scintillating, toe-tapping, wisecracking Cole Porter musical from 1934 is back to save us from real life once again”

“Yes, Anything Goes is old fashioned. But it’s also radical, a celebration of freedom and hedonism after Prohibition and the Wall Street Crash”

“A gloriously frothy and terrifically tuneful tap-dancing confection”

“The extended sections of dance are dazzling ”

“In the words of another classic Porter number, De-Lovely.”