THE award-winning Highcliffe Charity Players celebrate their 30th anniversary with a new version of Cole Porter's 1930s' hit musical Anything Goes.

The show, which opens at the Regent Centre, Christchurch, tonight (Sept 4) runs until Saturday.

The much-loved Broadway hit features many of Porter's most unforgettable songs, including I Get A Kick Out Of You, You're The Top, Blow, Gabriel, Blow and, of course, the showstopper of the title.

Directed by Matthew Smith and choreographed by former Bluebell dancer Jane White, the show features Ian Carter as musical director. As usual, the Players have said they will donate profits to local charities.

Set on the luxury ocean line the S.S. American on a voyage from New York to England in the '30s, Anything Goes involves mistaken identity, mismatched couples, the idle rich and an engaging gangster.

Reno Sweeney is the evangelist-turned-nightclub-singer who is intent on separating Billy Crocker from his debutante fiancee. Meanwhile, wealthy English aristocrat Lord Evelyn Oakleigh becomes entangled with the FBI's Public Enemy number 13, Moonface Martin and his sexy sidekick, Erma. Who ends up with whom? Well, Anything Goes!

Tickets are on sale at the box office 01202 499148, at £9 and £8 (concessions).