A sailing from New York to London, with a stowaway, a nightclub singer, a gangster pretending to be a minister and a romance on the rocks, it could sound like the beginning of a bad joke but no, this is Anything Goes, a musical that combines the book writing of Guy Bolton and P.G Woodhouse with the music of Cole Porter, here performed by Exeter Footlights, the musical theatre society of the University of Exeter in their on campus theatre, the Northcott. Anything Goes tells th

“It’s Delightful, it’s Delicious, it’s DeLovely” – the Barbican’s revival of Anything Goes surely takes the prize as the show of 2021. Written and set in the early 1930s, Cole Porter’s Anything Goes is a story of madcap antics aboard the SS American, on a voyage from New York to London. Packed with hilarity, romance, and mistaken identity, it sits in a league of its own as one of the bubbliest and most brilliantly buoyant shows I’ve ever seen- live or pre-recorded. It’s a