Anything Goes - Barbican / U.K.Tour

This is what I wondered if they’d kept from the tour. I wonder why they changed it as the hat was charming.

Lawson is pretty charmless as Moonface, so its a very 'fine' number now - I don't think he'd be able to make as much of it as Lindsay did.

I noticed they changed a few things in the production this year, but the changes were all small - maybe the biggest one is the absence of the hat with the light as mentioned above. I listed a few I noticed in case anybody is interested:

- When Billy enters Moonface’s cabin, Moonface also kneels to pretend to pray. Last year it was just Erma in front of a standing Moonface. They basically removed the sexual joke of the scene.
- When Whitney confesses “There was a time I drank” just before Blow Gabriel Blow, they changed “What time was that, half an hour ago?” to something like “Do you use a funnel now?”.
- Reno’s costume in Blow Gabriel is slightly different - she has some sort of red sleeves now in the same style of the rest of her dress.
- When they swap clothes in the cell, they actually manage to put the jackets on all the way. It’s slightly less awkward now, in my opinion.
- When we see Whitney singing in his cabin, he is shaving. I believe that wasn’t the case last year.
- Mooney does not steal Whitney’s champagne anymore.
- Luke shows us his deck of cards when Henry introduces him.

Again, they are all very minor changes. I’d be curious to know if anybody noticed other things.

The sexual joke between Moonface and Erma was still in it when I saw it 2nd show back. Also noticed additional sleeves for Kerry on the finale dress! Maybe she heard it’s cold in the Barbican.

New video of kerry performing the title song.

Does she go wrong at about 1m 42 sec? It looks like she turns one way and quickly corrects, or is it choreographed that way?

Either way, I'm not usually a fan but she is very good here

This is a condensed version of the full number, which they do whenever they're performing it out of context:

In the full thing, she goes down the line of sailors the opposite was to the above video, then there's another 30 seconds of tap before you get to the turns down the line so the set up is different to what you see above.

She definitely has made it work through hard work - she's certainly never had to dance in a show like this before - and she's giving a great performance at the Barbican.

A shame that she's lip syncing here, but that's a decision with the recording of the video, nothing against her.

Doyou think that’sKerry’s hair or a wig? I was quite close to the stage in Manchester and couldn’t see the usual tell-tale signs of wiggery. I know Sutton was wigged but she isn’t a blonde where Kerry is. Me and my friends have a bit of a thing about wigs, especially bad ones!

Tis a wig!

I haven’t bothered to go back to be honest, especially with all the train malarkey and having already seen Sutton/Dyer/Wilmot/Lindsay at the Barbican. And then again on TV for free over Christmas.

I’m glad people are still enjoying it though.

With it being lip-synced, how are her live vocals? I wonder if maybe she gasses and they don’t want to put that on an EPK/promo footage? I don’t remember Sutton miming in her promo spots, but I could be wrong.

Must be an expensive one. 

I have very triggering flashbacks to Sheila in A Chorus Line at the Curve 

Completely agree. I'm not a big fan, to say the least, but am very impressed with the recordings I've seen of her as Reno. Not enough to revisit at the Barbican, but hats off to Kerry for completely surpassing expectations in the role and proving a lot of people wrong.