I can't recommend this Cole Porter musical highly enough: Anything Goes, at the Barbican, reviewed

The Barbican’s big summer show is billed on the website as ‘the sold-out musical sensation, Anything Goes’. The term ‘sold-out’ is a strange way to describe a production that’s keen to get your business. You’d be forgiven for clicking away and hunting for a show with seats available. What the Barbican means is that this is a revival of an earlier production that did great business. And that may explain why tickets aplenty are available even on a busy Friday night. This version stars Kerry Ellis as the showgirl, Reno, who falls in love on a transatlantic cruise ship. Virtually every number is a classic. If you read any couplet from the title song you’ll be humming the melody all day.

‘In olden days a glimpse of stocking/ Was looked on as something shocking/ But now God knows …’

Though the show is 88 years old, it feels as fresh as a punnet of picked-this-morning strawberries

Cole Porter was one of the few composers who wrote the lyrics and the music for his shows, and he enjoyed mocking his rivals Rodgers and Hammerstein: ‘It takes two people to write a musical?’ Several hands contributed to the book, including P.G. Wodehouse, whose influence is clearly visible. The characters are clownish grotesques with simple, child-like natures. And the storytelling is brilliant. Each figure in the narrative has a clear dramatic goal which is easy for us to see but hard for the character to achieve. And it’s fun because the focus is on archetypal human eccentricities: the greed of impoverished widows; the preposterous theatricality of gangsters; the sad yearnings of lonely millionaires; the charming buffoonery of English aristocrats.