Shows · Kiss Me, Kate (1999 Revival)
Kiss Me, Kate (1999 Revival)
Opened 1999
881 performances
Revival, Modern
A musical-within-a-musical follows the feuding divorced couple Fred Graham and Lilli Vanessi as they are forced to costar in a musical version of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. Their backstage romantic battles mirror the onstage action, while a pair of bumbling gangsters add to the chaos by trying to collect on a gambling debt.
- Music
- Cole Porter
- Lyrics
- Cole Porter
- Book
- Sam & Bella Spewack
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Concord Theatricals KISS ME, KATE (REVISED 1999) listed in the licensor's own catalogue |
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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