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The 2011 Tony Award-winning musical for Best Musical Revival and Best Choreography is coming to Walton Arts Center next month.
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Anything Goes, the classic musical by legendary composer Cole Porter, will be in town for a string of performances from April 9-14.
The show, set on a cruise ship called the S.S. American, is the story of what happens when “etiquette and convention get tossed out the portholes as two unlikely pairs set off on the course to true love.”
New York Times called it “musical-comedy joy,” USA Today says it’s “glorious and exuberant,” and Fayetteville Flyer says, “We’ve got a pair of tickets to give away to it. Win ‘em.”
How to enter
As we mentioned above, Anything Goes is set on the cruise ship S.S. American. Have you ever been on a cruise? Leave a comment telling us something interesting about your cruise ship experience, or something funny that happened to you on a boat, or just tell us a boat joke, and you’re entered.
What you’ll win
One winner will win two (2) tickets to the performance of Anything Goes on Tuesday, April 9 at Walton Arts Center.
A few rules (read ‘em carefully):
- You may only enter this specific contest once.
- This contest is open to anyone anywhere except Fayetteville Flyer writers, Walton Arts Center employees, and their immediate family members.
- Contest is open until 12 p.m. CST on Friday, March 20
Make sure you leave a valid e-mail address when filling out the comment form since that’s how we’ll contact you if you’ve won. Once we notify the winners, you’ll have 24 hours to respond via email to claim your prize. - You’ll have to provide us with your first and last name (if you win) and then be prepared to show a valid photo ID when picking up your tickets.
Thanks to the Walton Arts Center for sponsoring this contest. For more information about this performance or to purchase tickets, visit waltonartscenter.com.
My cruise ship experience was on the S.S American when I was in Anything Goes in High School!
Also:
Dead ahead, through the pitch-black night, the captain sees a light on a collision course with his ship.
He sends a signal: “Change your course ten degrees east.”
“Change yours ten degrees west,” comes the reply.
The captain responds, “I’m a United States Navy captain! Change your course, sir!”
“I’m a seaman second class,” the next message reads. “Change your course, sir.”
The captain is furious. “I’m a battleship! I’m not changing course!”
“I’m a lighthouse. Your call.”
Did you hear about the red ship and the blue ship that collided?
Both crews were marooned!
I have been on about 4 cruises, and they are great! The more involved your get in the onboard activities, the more fun you have.
Well, I’ve never been on a cruise so here is a (very bad) boat joke….
Q: what do you do with a sick boat?
A: take it to the doc(k)
Told ya it was bad…..
I went on a Disney cruise when I was in Jr. High. They had glass elevators and had painted the shafts with different scenes featuring characters. One of the paintings was of Mickey & Minnie mouse looking out over the ocean and Mickey was totally copping a feel. We, being mature 8th graders, would giggle the whole elevator ride.
A man fell overboard from his little sailboat, and was thrashing around in the water when a ship pulled up beside him and threw him a rope.
“Grab the rope, we’ll save you!” they called.
“No!” cried the drowning man, “God will save me.”
The scene was repeated twice more with two more ships.
“No, God will save me!” was the response each time.
The man drowned, and as he crossed the Pearly Gates, he ran straight to God.
“I placed my faith in you, and you let me drown!”
“”Hey!” said God. “I sent three ships to save you!”
Whoops! That joke about the three ships and the drowning man should have been from me– I just used the same computer to enter and forgot to change the info (Lindi’s) to mine!
Tug life: http://img9.joyreactor.com/pics/post/funny-pictures-auto-thug-life-tug-469509.jpeg
I went on a Royal Carribian Cruise a few years ago. The company I worked for chartered the whole ship and everyone could bring a guest. They hired Bill Cosby to come onboard and do a show. I had the absolulte best time!
A doctor, a dentist and an attorney were in a boat together when a wave came along and washed them all overboard. Unable to get back into the boat, they decided two would hold on to the boat and the third would swim to shore for help.
They noticed that there were hundreds of sharks between them and land. Without a word the lawyer took off! As he swam the sharks move aside. The dentist yelled, “It’s a miracle!”
“No”, said the doctor, “That’s professional courtesy!”
Last summer I went deep sea fishing and spent the entire trip on my hands and knees heaving into the captain’s waste bin. I’m a land lubber for sure but with Cole Porter at the helm I’d gladly brave the seas again. Sign me up!
I have never been on a cruise but I once got on a lifeguard dingy at night with a fellow drinker to shoot fireworks out of the inlet. Needless to say the people at the hotel did not find it humorous.
Never been on a cruise, however I did work for a company who designed the interiors for cruiseliners and spent some time in the dry docks in Germany overseeing fit-out projects… always fun…never a straight line…
I was stranded on a party barge with a dead battery on Beaver Lake with an amazing group of women one long night years ago… at one point we were drifting towards rocks so I stripped to jump in and swim to the nearest tree and tie us up. Unfortunately it was April, so was a bit cold! I did succeed and we spent a cold night in a cove waiting for help. Rescue the next morning involved a brave man with a kayak who attempted to pull the barge across the lake and gave up, and finally 2 fishermen with a bass boat, one of which fell into the water while trying to help us! True story.
I went on a catamaran cruise around Oahu and spent the last half seasick! I clearly need some practice with my sea legs!
Do these pants make my boat look big?
Sorry, but this is the only boat joke I can thibk of: How is Bud Lite like having sex in a canoe? They’re both f***ing close to water!
Also, poets are regularly told, “If you want to write about love, write about a boat.”
have been on 4 cruises! only got seasick on one!! i would love to “reminice” on my cruises by winning these tickets and seeing the play!!
Also, I wrote this poem about a boat for my husband. We were married in Fayetteville last year!
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/241964
Skipper: You don’t know anything about space.
Gilligan: I do know one thing; you take up more of it than I do.
Something about a poop deck……
What did the water say to the boat? Nothing, it just waved.
ok, true story-born & raised in san diego ca , my dads freind had a beautifull boat called the rouge supposedly was once owned by howard huges, 120 feet long african teak wood & a beauty, my sister & i were going to be deck hands that summer, BUT the ship caught fire in coranado bay refrigeration leak, good thing we were not on it & out to sea!!!
what do you do with a sick boat?
…take it to the dock
I have never been on a cruise, nor spent much time on boats, but I find this so punny!
Do you get it?? It took me a couple of minutes haha
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How do you know when a boat is nervous? Their stomach is in nauts!
On my last cruise, I drank a lot of champagne. It was fabulous.
Q: What did the water say to the boat?
A: Nothing. It just waved.
Watching this show will probably be the closest I get to a cruise :)
What shakes and lies at the bottom of the ocean?
A nervous wreck!
I’ve never been on a cruise, but boats make me think of a couple things:
1) Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea
2) My Papaw teaching me to drive his boat when I was about 8 years old so that he could fish for sand bass while I drove.
I don’t get many opportunities to share my amazing boat joke:
Where is the best place to go shopping at sea?
-on a Saleboat.
I went to Key West for Spring Break in 2001 and knew a couple of people who had a boat. We motored around and swam in the ocean all day near Isla Morada, then my friend and I drove to Key West while the boat owners decided to travel to the key by sea. We waited all night, and they never showed up. The next day, they finally rolled in cold and hungry. The boat hit a sandbar, and they were stuck in the ocean all night until the tide came in.
Best boating experience = five days in a canoe on the Boundary Waters
Most heartlessly hilarious boating experience = seeing my buddy poop in a bucket on the deck of a sailboat for two days after eating fish tacos in lovely La Paz, Mexico