Edgy show will swing open closet door on Cole Porter.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: August 28, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

"The world has gone mad today

And good's bad today

And black's white today

And day's night today

When most guys today that women prize today

Are just silly gigolos"

_COLE PORTER,

``Anything Goes'' (1934)

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Sixty-six years ago, when Ethel Merman introduced the title song from Cole Porter's ``Anything Goes,'' only the most sophisticated theatergoers recognized that the composer's tongue was planted firmly in cheek.

Well, as Porter himself wrote in ``Anything Goes,'' times have changed.

Now, in a one-man show titled ...

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