Everybody Says Don't

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"See what it gets you" as hosts Bobby and Kristina discuss 1964's Anyone Can Whistle on episode seven of My Favorite Flop.

ABOUT ANYONE CAN WHISTLE

Described by theater historian Ken Mandelbaum as "a satire on conformity and the insanity of the so-called sane," Anyone Can Whistle tells the story of an economically-depressed town whose corrupt Mayoress, in an attempt to draw tourists, decides to create a fake "miracle" - which draws the attention of Fay Apple, an emotionally inhibited nurse, a crowd of inmates from a local asylum called "The Cookie Jar," and a "doctor" with secrets of his own. The musical features a book by Arthur Laurents and music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.

Following a tryout period in Philadelphia, Anyone Can Whistle opened at the Majestic Theater on Broadway on April 4, 1964 to widely varied reviews (including negative notices from the New York Times and the New York Herald Tribune). It closed after a run of 12 previews and 9 performances and in the decades since its closing, it has not been produced on the scale of other Sondheim musicals; notable productions include a 1995 concert version at Carnegie Hall, a pair of stagings in London and Los Angeles in 2003 that incorporated revisions, and a 2010 concert staging for the Encores! program at New York City Center.

Its score, however, has become an acclaimed part of Sondheim's canon, and songs such as the title tune, "Everybody Says Don't", and "There Won't Be Trumpets" have been widely performed. The show is also known for marking the stage musical debut of Angela Lansbury.

Original Broadway Cast

Angela Lansbury as Cora Hoover Hooper
Lee Remick as Fay Apple
Harry Guardino as J. Bowden Hapgood
Gabriel Dell as Comptroller Schub
James Frawley as Chief Magruder
Don Doherty as Dr. Detmold
Peg Murray as Mrs. Schroeder
Arnold Soboloff as Treasurer Cooley
Jeanne Tanzy as Baby Joan
Harvey Evans as John/One Of The Boys/Cookie/Townsperson/Etc
Sterling Clark as One Of The Boys/Cookie/Townsperson/Etc
Larry Roquemore as George/One Of The Boys/Cookie/Townsperson/Etc
Tucker Smith as One Of The Boys/Cookie/Townsperson/Etc
Georgia Creighton as Osgood/Cookie/Townsperson/Etc
Alan Johnson as Telegraph Boy/Cookie/Townsperson/Etc
Janet Hayes as June/Cookie/Townsperson/Etc
Jeff Killion as Sandwich Man/Cookie/Townsperson/Etc
Eleonore Treiber as Old Lady/Cookie/Townsperson/Etc
Lester Wilson as Martin/Cookie/Townsperson/Etc
Susan Borree as Cookie/Townsperson/Etc
Eugene Edwards as Cookie/Townsperson/Etc
Dick Ensslen as Cookie/Townsperson/Etc
Loren Hightower as Cookie/Townsperson/Etc
Bettye Jenkins as Cookie/Townsperson/Etc
Patricia Kelly as Cookie/Townsperson/Etc
Barbara Lang as Cookie/Townsperson/Etc
Paula Lloyd as Cookie/Townsperson/Etc
Barbara Monte as Cookie/Townsperson/Etc
Jack Murray as Cookie/Townsperson/Etc
Odette Phillips as Cookie/Townsperson/Etc
William Reilly as Cookie/Townsperson/Etc
Hanne Marie Reiner as Cookie/Townsperson/Etc
Donald Stewart as Cookie/Townsperson/Etc