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Kiss Me, Kate, 2019

Shows · Kiss Me, Kate · Studio 54, 2019

Kiss Me, Kate
We hold no picture of this staging. This one is filed against Kiss Me, Kate and could document any of its runs. None
Revival BroadwayStudio 54 257 performances

The run closed June 30, 2019

Opened
March 14, 2019
Closed
June 30, 2019
Performances
257
Previews
Unknown
Theatre
Studio 54

Of the 425 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and carry a performance count, this is the 89th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Kiss Me, Kate 5 more that season

1948 New Century Theatre Original · John C. Wilson 1,077 perf.
1952 Broadway Theatre Revival · John C. Wilson 8 perf.
1999 Martin Beck Theatre Revival · Michael Blakemore 881 perf.
2001 Victoria Palace Theatre Transfer
2001 Victoria Palace Theatre Original

Who was in it24 named

Kelli O Hara
Mel Johnson Jr
Adrienne Walker
Lance Coadie Williams
John Pankow
Darius Barnes
Derrick Cobey
Haley Fish
Tanya Haglund
Marissa Mcgowan
Justin Prescott
Christine Cornish Smith
Sam Strasfeld

11 of these 24 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 13 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Director
Scott Ellis
Choreographer
Warren Carlyle

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

Recordings 18 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Kiss Me, Kate, and nothing says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.

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…

Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.

What this page does not know

  • No photograph of this staging.
  • No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
  • Which of the 18 recordings of Kiss Me, Kate document this run, if any.
  • Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.

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