anything goes; endless stock market channel

 anything goes; endless stock market channel

fiction

edward w pritchard

Never have I viewed the Broadway musical of "Anything goes". The plot is simple; a pretty boy assumes an alias becomes a stowaway on a European bound ocean line in 1935, courts and marries an heiress  and every one lives happily thereafter as there were no sneaky Nazi U boat plot device sinking's staged in the original plot.  Cole Porter's song "anything goes" is the highlight of the play and Sutton Foster does the best modern version of the  extended song and dance number although Ella Fitzgerald 's musical recording of " anything goes is memorable. ''  

"Anything goes" re-staged today would have to contain a verse about the stock market channel endlessly touting the genius of sneaky billionaires inventing imaginary meta verses and martian colonies, highly paid football coaches suing the NFL owners who made them rich, and major league baseball players demanding each year more and more money for playing in fewer and fewer games. 

" Times have changed" "anything goes".