Anything Goes at Lower Saxony State Theatre Hanover

The musical will premiere on 28th November

"When the poor brain is cracking, there's nothing like packing a suitcase and sailing away."

Large cruise ships are meeting places and holiday destinations, air polluters and luxury status symbols at the same time. The transatlantic barge named "MS America" in Cole Porter's hit musical Anything Goes also appears as a vanishing point, as a place of submersion.
So the young stockbroker Billy Crocker sneaks on board the ocean liner as a stowaway. He has fallen madly in love with the naïve young Hope Harcourt, who sails from New York to London with her (always worried) mother. Also on board: Hope's actual fiancé, Lord Oakleigh, a snob from an English family. Billy is supported in his plan to conquer Hope by the crook Moonface Martin, who in turn has gone into hiding in the invisibility cloak of a priest on board. Always confident and relaxed: Reno Sweeney, nightclub dancer and sex saint. And then there's Elisha Whitney, an aging (and alcohol-loving) romantic who has his sights set on Hope Harcourt's mother. At the same time, Whitney is the boss of the stressed Billy Crocker ...
In milliseconds, emotional states, hiding places and disguises change! In addition, Cole Porter's unforgettable hits like the eponymous Anything Goes or I Get a Kick Out of You haunted us through the evening. Moral of the story: There is no morality! When life gets crazy, just put on your (tap) dancing shoes, let the ship sail and sing for all it's worth! Everything flows. Everyone dances. Nothing works anymore. But anything goes!

Main roles are Bettine Mönch as Reno Sweeney, Julia Sturzlbaum as Hope Harcourt, Carmen Fuggiss as Evangeline Harcourt, Max Dollinger as Lord Evelyn Oakleigh, Frank Schneiders as Elisha Whitney, Christof Messner as Billy Crocker, Dirk Schafer as Moonface Martin, Amani Robinson as Erma, Ingolf Kumbrink / Tadeusz Slowiak as Spit, Valentin Kostov / Martin Kreilkamp as Dippy, Yannick Spanier as Captain, Juri Menke as Chief Steward. Sailor quartet, among others are Gregory Antemes / James Cook / Stephen Dole / Richard Patrocinio / Nils Axelsson / Johannes Summer. Reno's Showgirls are Faye Bollheimer / Fides Groot Landeweer / Joana Henrique-Jakobs / Susie Porter / Janina Moser. Fred, a bartender Marek Durka / Thomas Kubitza, Henry T. Dobson, a pastor Uğur Okay / Henri Tikkanen. Chorus of the Hanover State Opera and Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hanover

Anything Goes has music and lyrics by Cloe Porter, a book by Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. New version by Timothy Crouse and John Weidman
German version by Niklas Wagner and Roman Hinze.  Directed by Piotr Jaworski and Lorenzo Da Rio, production by Adriana Altaras, choreography by Bart De Clercq, stage and costume design by Timo Dentler and Okarina Peter, lighting design by Fabian Grohmann, choir by Lorenzo Da Rio, dramaturgy  by Arno Lücker, xchange by Kirsten Corbett