Encores! Presents Anyone Can Whistle

City Center Encores! presents Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurent's Anyone Can Whistle. The production features Sutton Foster, Raul Esparza, Donna Murphy, Edward Hibbert, Jeff Blumenkrantz and John Ellison Conlee. Casey Nicholaw directs and choreographs.

Anyone Can Whistle opened on April 4, 1964, at the Majestic Theatre and closed after nine performances. With a score by Sondheim and a book and direction by Laurents, the experimental satire took aim at every target on the American cultural scene—conformity, psychology, race relations, greed, religion and politics. The title song and “With So Little to Be Sure Of” have survived as a cabaret classic, but the rarely heard complete score is a riot of jazzy, showbiz razzmatazz, waltzes, gospel numbers and Broadway pastiche.