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As if that were not enough, it is also about the elements of music, and beyond that an account of the ways in which music and life mirror each other.

Denk, at the age of fifty-one, has written a book that shows what it’s like to be a pianist, but also what it’s like to be Jeremy Denk. Some forty years ago, as a very young actor, I wrote a book called Being an Actor, which attempted to describe what it’s like to be an actor. Not mine, as it happens, the only child in the United Kingdom who begged his mother for piano lessons and was refused them and not that of the American pianist Jeremy Denk, who was in continuous music education from the age of six to thirty-one, under the tutelage of a remarkable succession of teachers, almost all of whom had something valuable to contribute to his evolving understanding of both the complex and many-faceted instrument to which he has devoted his life and the complex and many-faceted person that he is. This, broadly speaking, is most people’s view of piano lessons. A single huge keyboard is at the center of the colony the children miserably take their places at it and begin to play. Exhausted by his fruitless labors, Bart falls asleep at the piano and dreams that he has been sent, along with 499 other boys, to a pianistic penal colony ruled over by Dr. Seuss’s only original screenplay, young Bart, living alone with his harassed mom, is compelled to endure piano lessons from the local music teacher, fussy, tyrannical Dr. TOUR DATES 1 April 2022 – 16 April 2022 – BRISTOL Hippodrome TheatreĢ0 April 2022 – 30 April 2022 – LIVERPOOL Empire Theatreĩ June 2022 – 18 June 2022 – MANCHESTER Palace TheatreĢ5 June 2022 – 3 September 2022 – RETURN TO LONDON - Barbican Theatre

Joining them is Olivier Award Winner Simon Callow (Christmas Carol/Midsomer Murders) as Elisha Whitney and West End Legend Bonnie Langford (EastEnders/9 to 5) as Evangeline Harcourt. The production for 2022 will star multi-award-winner Kerry Ellis (Wicked/We Will Rock You) as Reno Sweeney and Olivier Award Winner Denis Lawson (Bleak House/Star Wars) as Moonface Martin. Anything Goes is ‘musical equivalent of sipping one glass of champagne after another’ and 'The antidote to everything'. Steaming out on UK Tour from April 2022 and returning to the Barbican by popular demand for a strictly limited 7 week season. The sold-out musical sensation, Anything Goes returns to the UK in 2022.