Cole Porter was a prolific dude. The jazz-age lyrical and musical giant wrote the books for several musicals as well as several bouncy, pep-in-the-step, gleam-in-the-eye, this-one’s-for-our-boys-abroad love tunes in the ’30s and ’40s (and most likely responsible for keeping folks happily saving tinfoil and rationing sugar during the grandparents’ War Years). He probably single-handedly kept the angsty counterculture of the ’60s at bay with lively tunes given hopeful yet suggestive titles like “Anything Goes” and “Let’s Do It”—pretty much any corny but infectious love song from that period. This is a show made to make patrons want to (consensually!) grab one another and launch into a swinging fox trot.
Sat, 8pm, $45
Hammer Theatre, San Jose
