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Anything Goes celebrates a triumphant opening, plus an extension into 2012!

"Who needs a brass section when you’ve got Sutton Foster? As the nightclub evangelist Reno Sweeney in the zesty new revival of “Anything Goes,” which opened on Thursday night at the Stephen Sondheim Theater, Ms. Foster has the voice of a trumpet and a big, gleaming presence that floods the house. When she leads the show-stopping “Blow, Gabriel, Blow,” you figure that if no horn-tooting archangel appears, it’s only because he’s afraid of the competition.

Ms. [Kathleen] Marshall and her singing dancers and comic actors — a motley crew that includes Joel Grey, Jessica Walter, Adam Godley and John McMartin — are here not to make sense of the world but to help us forget it for a couple of hours.

[Sutton Foster's] triple mastery of words, music and moves is unmatched by any performer on Broadway at the moment. It’s not just that she nails every step, note and joke. It’s the attitude with which she does so — an aw-shucks kind of casualness coupled with a dizzy exhibitionist’s delight."
- Ben Brantley, The New York Times

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David Hyde Pierce to Contribute to The Importance of Being Earnest: Live in HD; Venues Announced - April 11, 2011

"Tony Award winner David Hyde Pierce will serve as host of The Importance of Being Earnest: Live in HD, which will be shown for limited screenings in movie theaters and performing arts centers across the U.S. and internationally on Thursday, June 2, 2011 and varying dates through June 30.

The film preserves The Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway production of The Importance of Being Earnest, currently performing at the American Airlines Theatre. Brian Bedford directs and stars as Lady Bracknell in Oscar Wilde's popular comedy of mistaken identity, which ridicules codes of propriety and etiquette." - TheaterMania.com

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