Cole Porter’s ‘Anything Goes’ opens on Broadway 80 years ago tonight (Nov 21 1934)

1930s, Broadway


ETHEL MERMAN - ANYTHING GOES 1979

(Wednesday, November 21, 1934) — The Cole Porter musical Anything Goes, starring Ethel Merman as Reno Sweeney and set aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London, opened today at the Alvin Theatre (now known as the Neil Simon Theatre) on Broadway in New York.