Anyone Can Whistle

Anyone Can Whistle is a Stephen Sondheim musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, first seen on Broadway in 1964. Set in a town struggling through economic depression, it centres on a corrupt mayoress who invents a miracle in hopes of luring visitors and reviving local fortunes. When a nurse from the nearby asylum and a newly arrived psychiatrist begin to question what is real, the town's certainties start to unravel.