Karen from Will & Grace coming to the West End, you say? What are we going to wear?
In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking now heaven knows… Kardashians getting their pudenda out for money and all sorts of carrying on. Makes you hanker for something a little, you know, less. And yet a little more. Which is where the hardy perennial Cole Porter musical Anything Goes written by PG Wodehouse comes in. Oh and that first bit is the song Anything Goes, in case you thought we’d finally lost our grip on everything but our martinis.
And we are drinking to toast its return in what could just be its finest incarnation to date seeing as it’s set to star, the one, the only… Karen from Will & Grace! Well, not the character exactly but the woman who plays her so well you’d almost think it was the same person, Megan Mullally. Who we’ve clearly heard sing already, if not on Will & Grace (remember Unforgettable on that last episode? We still go to bed crying sometimes), then as part of that group she had. You know, they came over about eight years ago. Good they were. Bit folky.
Anyway, this incarnation is to be directed by one Kathleen Marshall, who tidied up no fewer than nine Tony nominations when she did the same thing on Broadway, and will premiere at the Barbican Theatre in London’s glittering not-quite-the-City on May 21 of next year, global destruction, disease and pestilence permitting.
What’s it about? Basically, it’s about a gay cruise (old meaning of the word gay, but who are we to judge, Judy?)
Barbican.org.uk for tickets
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