Anything Goes Character Question

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 5/19/11 at 10:35am

I'm reading the script to "Anything Goes" for the first time (after being somewhat familiar with the music), and I had a question about Moonface Martin.

Is he supposed to be played by an older man...does it say something like that in the script? Or is that just a trend shown with Joel Grey, Bill McCutcheon, ect.

[Jon]

Posted: 5/19/11 at 11:09am

There is no age indicated in the script. The original Moonface, Victor Moore, was about 50.

William Gaxton (the original Billy) and Victor Moore worked together as a Leading Man/Comic Sidekick team in several musicals, includeing Of Thee i Sing.