BasOp's 2001 show was the well known musical "Anything Goes", the story of mixed bag of characters travelling from the USA to the UK on a 1930s liner. Romance and comedy are in the air as a cast including gangsters, stowaways, a missionary and an ex-evangelist turned night-club singer try to keep their own secrets while exposing each others'.

Well known songs from the show include:

  • the title song - Anything Goes,
  • You're the Top,
  • Friendship,
  • I get a Kick out of You,
  • Blow, Gabriel, Blow,
  • All Through the Night
The show ran from May 30th to June 2nd at the Woodlands School, Basildon.

'Anything Goes' (Revised) , an amateur production by arrangement
with MusicScope & Stage Musicals Limited of New York.
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter, Book by Guy Bolton, P.G.Wodehouse,
Howard Lindsay, and Russel Crouse.
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