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Shows · Kiss Me, Kate · Studio 54, 2019

Kiss Me, Kate, 2019

Opened March 14, 2019

Closed June 30, 2019

257 performances

Studio 54

Revival

Broadway

Of the productions that opened in the 2010s, this had the 89th longest run.

Other stagings of Kiss Me, Kate 5 more

1948
New Century TheatreBroadway Original, directed by John C. Wilson
1,077 performances
1952
Broadway TheatreBroadway Revival, directed by John C. Wilson
8 performances
1999
Martin Beck TheatreBroadway Revival, directed by Michael Blakemore
881 performances
2001
Victoria Palace TheatreLondon 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

Creative team

Director
Scott Ellis
Choreographer
Warren Carlyle

Recordings 1 released while this run was on

2019
Kiss Me, Kate
Kiss Me, Kate Released 2019

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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