‘Anything Goes’ Extends Into 2012

Anything GoesSara Krulwich/The New York Times Joel Grey and Sutton Foster in the Broadway revival of “Anything Goes.”

Broadway’s revival of “Anything Goes” won’t be going anywhere any time soon. On Wednesday, Roundabout Theater Company announced that its production of that Cole Porter musical, starring Sutton Foster as the evangelizing nightclub singer Reno Sweeney and Joel Grey as the milquetoast gangster Moonface Martin, will extend its run by about six months. The revival, directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall, is now planned to play at the Stephen Sondheim Theater through January 8; it was originally scheduled to close after July 31. (That’s roughly 184 more performances of cruise-ship based musical farce, so let’s hope everyone packed some additional swim trunks.) Reviewing this production of “Anything Goes” for The New York Times, Ben Brantley wrote that it “exudes the effervescence of a freshly poured gin fizz,” adding that when Ms. Foster “turns her toothy, triumphant smile on the audience there’s no doubt that she’s made many converts.”