Anything Goes by Reboot
Leave it to me to find earnestness in a show written by Cole Porter, of all people, and produced by Reboot Theatre Company , but find it I did. It came out blazing right away with powerhouse Kat McFadden as Reno Sweeney doing amazing work on I Get a Kick Out of You, You're the Top (partnered with Mackenzie Malhotra's Billy Crocker), and Friendship (partnered with Rolando Cardona-Roman's Moonface Martin.) The program says McFadden once played Maureen in Rent. I would have loved to have seen that. One number followed another. The choreography was cute and entertaining, but all through the first act, I kept asking myself, where is the tap. Like Marvin the Martian asking, where's the ka-boom? Then came the ka-boom. The tapping in the titular number, Anything Goes, at the end of act one with Harry Turpin's choreography, as carried out by the cast, swept me away. The shoes chattering in perfect time with the band, the hands darting, the faces popping. The crowd, of course...