Moorestown Theater Company Production of Anything Goes Opens Friday Night

The Moorestown Theater Company opens its tap dancing musical with a Cole Porter score Anything Goes on Friday night.

A 40-member adult cast includes Channel 6ABC Anchor Rick Williams playing ‘Moonface Martin’ (‘Public Enemy #13’) and Director Mark Morgan playing ‘Sir Evelyn Oakleigh.’

The show takes place on S. S. American’ on its cross-Atlantic voyage in 1932 and features such classic songs as “You’re The Top”, “It’s DeLovely”, “Friendship”, “I Get A Kick Out Of You”, “Let’s Misbehave”, “Blow, Gabriel Blow”, “All Through The Night, “Take Me Back To Manhattan”, and the great title song, which will all be played by a live 14-piece orchestra.

It will be Morgan’s first major performance in a show since he performed in Oklahoma! in 2004.

Morgan emphasized the presence of tap dancing and the use of the orchestra in the show, saying both are rare in live performances.

The show takes place at the Moorestown Upper Elementary School, 325 Borton Landing Road in Moorestown.

Morgan will appear in and direct the show. Mark Pinzur is the vocal director and Jody Haggerty is the choreographer.

Show dates are as follows:

Friday, Nov. 14: 7 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 15: 7 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 16: 2 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 21: 7 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 22: 7 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 23: 2 p.m.

Tickets are $15. Veterans can purchase tickets at a discounted price of $11, in honor of Veterans Day.

Tickets are reserved, and can be purchased online at www.MoorestownTheaterCompany.org or at the door 60 minutes before curtain time.

For more information, call MTC at 856 -778-8357.

The attached image of Rick Williams and Carol Ann Morgan was provided by the Moorestown Theater Company.