Anything Goes | 1988 Tony Awards

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Patti LuPone and the company perform the title song from Cole Porter's Anything Goes at the 1988 Tony Awards. Skip to 0:28 to jump past the introduction by Angela Lansbury.

"Forget about the Colosseum, the Louvre museum, a melody from a symphony by Strauss - Patti LuPone is the top. As Reno Sweeney, the sassy nightclub singer in the Lincoln Center revival of 'Anything Goes,' Ms. LuPone has her first sensational New York role since 'Evita' in 1979, and, given that Cole Porter is the evening's buoyant guiding spirit, you don't have to fear that she'll succumb to death scenes in the second act.

With her burst of Lucille Ball red hair, a trumpet's blare in her voice and lips so insinuatingly protruded they could make the Pledge of Allegiance sound lewd, Ms. LuPone's Reno is a mature, uninhibited jazz dame: loose, trashy, funny, sexy." — New York Times, 1987