Cole Porter’s ‘Anything Goes’ hits Warner Theatre

WASHINGTON — Even if you’ve never seen Cole Porter’s “Anything Goes,” you’ve seen traces of its pop culture legacy.

Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett just covered the title song on their Grammy-winning duet album.

Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald have performed famous covers of “I Get a Kick Out of You.”

And Steven Spielberg used the show to open “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” (1984), presenting a musical number performed by his now wife, Kate Capshaw.

Now is your chance to catch the Cole Porter classic at the Warner Theatre for a two-day engagement on Wednesday, Feb. 25 and Thursday, Feb. 26.

It’s part of a national tour following the show’s Tony win for Best Musical Revival in 2011, breathing new life into a play that opened on Broadway with Ethel Merman in 1934.

This time, Emma Stratton plays the legendary lead, Reno Sweeney, a nightclub singer who gets caught in a love triangle while performing on an ocean liner from New York to London.

WTOP spoke with Stratton about what makes this show so special:

March 29, 2024 | (Jason Fraley)

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Jason Fraley

Hailed by The Washington Post for “his savantlike ability to name every Best Picture winner in history," Jason Fraley began at WTOP as Morning Drive Writer in 2008, film critic in 2011 and Entertainment Editor in 2014, providing daily arts coverage on-air and online.

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