Deerfield-Windsor Players ready to lift the curtain on spring play

ALBANY — If you like cheesy jokes, tap-dancing and singing, then the Deerfield-Windsor School Drama and Music Department has your ticket.

DWS will present “Anything Goes” as its annual Spring Musical Friday through Sunday at Albany Municipal Auditorium. The curtain will go up at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday.

The DWS spring play began in 1988 and has become a school staple.

“We have a very strong lead cast in this group,” Director Lindsey Stewart said. “The play has fun music, cheesy jokes, tap-dancing and should be a lot of fun for everybody.”

Cole Porter wrote the music for the play, which features a DSW cast of 54 students from grades five through 12.

According to the web site broadway.com, “Anything Goes” is set aboard the ocean liner S. S. American, where nightclub singer/evangelist Reno Sweeney is en route from New York to England. Her pal, Billy Crocker, has stowed away to be near his love, Hope Harcourt, but the problem is Hope is engaged to the wealthy Lord Evelyn Oakleigh. Joining this love triangle on board the luxury liner are Public Enemy No. 13, Moonface Martin, and his sidekick-in-crime, Erma.

With the help of some elaborate disguises, tap-dancing sailors and good old-fashioned blackmail, Reno and Martin join forces to help Billy in his quest to win Hope’s heart.

At least two members of the cast were pleased with the play’s selection.

“The play has a lot of comedy in it, mostly cheesy and I like that a lot,” Lacey Coleman, who plays “Reno”, said. “I want to major in theater in college because I enjoy writing and acting. College will be a good starting point for my career.”

Reed Reynolds plays “Moonface Martin.”

“This is something I really love doing,” Reynolds said. “I am also going to be a theater major because it is something I want to do for the rest of my life. I like my character. He’s goofy and somewhat stupid and I like that.

Tickets for the show are $15 each and are available at the school’s upper campus. Tickers also will be available at the auditorium box office and hour before showtime.