Shows · Kiss Me, Kate · Martin Beck Theatre, 1999
Kiss Me, Kate, 1999
Opened November 18, 1999
Closed December 30, 2001
881 performances
Revival
Broadway
Of the productions that opened in the 1990s, this had the 23rd longest run.
Other stagings of Kiss Me, Kate 5 more
Who was in it47 named
John Horton
Blake Hammond
Darren Lee
Kevin Neil Mccready
Elizabeth Mills
Robert Ousley
Vince Pesce
Cynthia Sophiea
Mamie Duncan-Gibbs
David Elder
Herb Foster
Janine LaManna
Michael McCormick
Brad Anderson
Michael Arnold
Bill Brassea
Jeffrey Broadhurst
Christopher Coucill
Eugene Fleming
Lisa Gajda
Michael Gruber
Joan Hess
Nadine Isenegger
Lorin Latarro
Kevin Ligon
Corinne Melancon
Max Perlman
Laura Schutter
Lee A Wilkins
Creative team
- Director
- Michael Blakemore
- Choreographer
- Kathleen Marshall
- Orchestrations
- credited to Don Sebesky
Recordings 1 released while this run was on
17 more exist for other runs of this show: see Kiss Me, Kate for all of them.
Around this production
Kiss Me, Kate is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and a book by Bella and Samuel Spewack. The story involves the production of a musical version of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and the conflict on and off-stage between Fred Graham, the show's director, producer, and star, and his leading lady, his ex-wife Lilli Vanessi. A secondary romance concerns Lois Lane, the actress playing Bianca, and her gambler boyfriend, Bill, who runs afoul of some gangsters. The original production starred Alfred Drake, Patricia Morison, Lisa Kirk and Harold Lang. Kiss Me, Kate was Porter's response to Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! and other integrated musicals; it was the firs…
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