Anything Goes - Barbican / U.K.Tour

“Saw the show in Dublin with a friend and we both thought Nicole had good chemistry with Billy, was a fabulous dancer and had a nice presence/energy onstage. Her vocals were a little shakey at times though. She has a lovely voice when she's singing the correct note!”





Interesting! I do agree she is a wonderful dancer and has a great stage presence. She looks beautiful in the costumes and is very graceful.

I never saw it live but I’ve watched a bootleg of the Broadway 2011 revival and loved Laura Osnes as Hope.

I was there too! Front row! It’s all nonsense of course but brilliantly done and the big numbers are sensational!

Awww Bonnie is a MT legend! Let her have a high kick!

I liked Bonnie. If you can overact in anything, then you can in this show. The whole thing is extremely camp.

Sounds like Denis has come on a lot since Bristol then? Is he actually getting the laughs now?

Yes that line got me too....the way she said "help " made me laugh a little too loudly. Brilliant

Did I lend you my pen, by any chance?

What time does it finish please??

It was about 10.10

Woah - half time on a Monday evening in a Barbican that is probably 90% full and this cast is killing it. Kerry Ellis is sensational as Reno - vocally brilliant, nailing the tap and just a little less "starry" than Sutton Foster. Simon Callow is superb as Whitney, brilliantly almost walking off stage into the audience without his glasses on - he's worth the ticket alone. Denis Lawson has big shoes to fill as Moonface Martin but does so with aplomb. Pleasant voice and adding his own flavour to the role. No Bonnie tonight sadly. Rest of the cast as good as last year, and thus show has the same infectious joy and silliness as last year. Happy audience, buoyant cast, superb orchestra. Happy Days. Book, book, book - well worth seeing again, andvtgats just after the first half!

Second half was every bit as good as the first half. I'm a fan of Denis Lawson and think following Robert Lindsay is a tough gig, but he did it well. The bluebird song was good - played differently to last time. Blow Gabriel Blow was well received and the choreography was fantastic, especially from above (I was in a slip seat). Forgive me if I'm istaken, but I don't recall a musical stop in last year's production where BGB choreography and music frozen for a second before kicking back in slightly faster - if it happened, it wasn't as good as tonight! I've run out of positive words for Kerry Ellis - she's THAT good that she made the part look easy. She also has a wonderful connection with the audience, instinctively knowing what works without labouring her craft or being stagey. She's every bit as good as Sutton Foster, in my view. Simon Callow was an utter delight - so convincing was he as the bumbling Whitney, I genuinely wondered if it was acting or real. His comic timing is fantastic. The roles carried over by last year's cast are like old friends,but Carly Mercedes Dyer pretty much blew the roof off the Barbican with her performance, and she got a hell of a roar at the end, and rightly so.

This show is such a delight and the cast seemed taken back by the reception of the audience. The theatre had a few spare seats but I was surprised how full it was for a Monday.

Go see it - I've got hot pants for this show.

Saw this on Monday with a Stalls rush seat. There were lots of Stalls seats available at the start of the day, but by the evening, they'd closed the upper level and the Stalls were full, so make of that what you will if you're buying tickets.

This did lead to a pretty horrible audience, especially due to talking. Managed to get some people behind me to finally shut up, then an usher came over during the interval to say there had been a report of someone sitting in the same seat taking photographs. Typical.

The show is just as spectacular as last year. Quite a bit of restaging, especially during Blow Gabriel Blow, which I thought worked really well. I did miss Gary Wilmot though. Nicole-Lily Baisden's voice was rather strained. Bonnie Langford was away, so I will have to go back and see here, but enjoyed Anna McGarahan as the cover. And spotted Josh Barnett on stage as well, which is always a bonus.

Will be back later in the run.