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Kiss Me, Kate
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Kiss Me, Kate
Music
Cole Porter
Lyrics
Cole Porter
Book
Samuel and Bella Spewack
Basis
Shakespeare's play
The Taming of the Shrew
Productions
1948 Broadway
1951 West End
1999 Broadway revival
2001 West End revival
2007 Italian Version
2012 Chichester / West End revival
Awards
Tony Award for Best Musical
Tony Award for Composer and Lyricist
Tony Award for Best Author
Tony Award for Best Revival
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival
Evening Standard for Best Musical
Critics Circle for Best Musical
Kiss Me, Kate is a musical written by Samuel and Bella Spewack with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. 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 and won the Tony Award.
Kiss Me, Kate was Porter's response to Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! and other integrated musicals; it was the first show he wrote in which the music and lyrics were firmly connected to the script, and it proved to be his biggest hit and the only one of his shows to run for more than 1,000 performances on Broadway.[1][2] In 1949, it won the first Tony Award presented for Best Musical.
On March 25, 2015, it was announced that the 1949 original cast recording would be inducted into the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry for the album's "cultural, artistic and/or historical significance to American society and the nation's audio legacy".[3]
Contents
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1 Inspiration
2 Productions
2.1 Original Broadway production
2.2 Original London production
2.3 Original Australian production
2.4 1970 London revival
2.5 1987 London revival
2.6 1999 Broadway revival
2.7 2001 London revival
2.8 2012 London revival
2.9 2015 Opera North production
2.10 Upcoming 2019 Broadway revival
3 Casts
3.1 Original Casts for major American productions
4 Plot
5 Song list
6 Film and television
7 Awards and nominations
7.1 Original Broadway production
7.2 1999 Broadway revival
7.3 2001 London revival
7.4 2012 London revival
8 Notes
9 References
10 External links
Inspiration[edit]
The musical was inspired by the on-stage/off-stage battling of husband-and-wife actors Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne during their 1935 production of Shrew, witnessed by future Broadway producer Arnold Saint-Subber. In 1947 he asked the Spewacks (undergoing their own marital woes at the time) to write the script; Bella Spewack in turn enlisted Cole Porter to write the music and lyrics.[4]
Productions[edit]
Original Broadway production[edit]
After a 3½-week pre-Broadway tryout at the Shubert Theatre in Philadelphia starting December 2, 1948, the original Broadway production opened on December 30, 1948, at the New Century Theatre, where it ran for nineteen months before transferring to the Shubert, for a total run of 1,077 performances. Directed by John C. Wilson with choreography by Hanya Holm, the original cast included Alfred Drake, Patricia Morison, Lisa Kirk,[5] Harold Lang, Charles Wood and Harry Clark.
Original London production[edit]
The original West End production opened on March 8, 1951 at the Coliseum Theatre, and ran for 400 performances. Directed by Sam Spewack with choreography again by Holm, this production starred Patricia Morison, Bill Johnson, Adelaide Hall and Julie Wilson.
Original Australian production[edit]
The original Australian production played from February 1952 at His Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne, before seasons in Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide until 1954. The production featured Hayes Gordon and Joy Turpin (later replaced by Evie Hayes).[6][7][8]
1970 London revival[edit]
A London revival opened in December 1970 at the London Coliseum, in a production by the Sadler's Wells Opera. The cast featured Emile Belcourt (Petruchio), Judith Bruce, Eric Shilling, Ann Howard (Kate), Francis Egerton, Robert Lloyd, with direction by Peter Coe and choreography by Sheila O'Neill. Coe did a translation for British audiences, including having "a tea wagon", and included "traditional English music hall jokes".[9] This revival had a "brief run", according to the Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre.[10][11]
1987 London revival[edit]
The Royal Shakespeare Company staged a production at London's Old Vic Theatre, which opened 19 May 1987. Directed by Adrian Noble and staged by Ron Field, the production starred Nichola McAuliffe and Paul Jones as Lilli/Kate and Fred/Petruchio, with Tim Flavin and Fiona Hendley as Bill/Lucentio and Lois/Bianca. The gangsters were played by Emil Wolk and John Bardon. The cast recorded a CD album which is available on First Night Records in their Cast Masters range.
1999 Broadway revival[edit]
A Broadway revival opened at the Martin Beck Theatre on November 18, 1999 and closed on December 30, 2001 after 881 performances and 28 previews. Directed by Michael Blakemore, Produced by Richard Godwin, and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall and Rob Ashford, the opening night cast included Marin Mazzie, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Amy Spanger, Michael Berresse, Ron Holgate, Lee Wilkof, and Michael Mulheren. This production won the Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Musical and Best Actor in a Musical for Mitchell; Marin Mazzie received a Tony nomination for Best Actress in a Musical, and Michael Berresse, Lee Wilkof and Michael Mulheren received Tony nominations for Best Featured Actor in a Musical.
2001 London revival[edit]
A West End revival opened at the Victoria Palace Theatre on October 30, 2001, and closed on August 24, 2002. As with the 1999 Broadway revival, Michael Blakemore was the director with choreography by Kathleen Marshall. Brent Barrett and Marin Mazzie co-starred.[12]
2012 London revival[edit]
Chichester Festival Theatre's 2012 revival of the show transferred to the Old Vic Theatre on London's South Bank in November 2012, with an official opening in December.[13] It starred Hannah Waddingham as Lili/Kate and Alex Bourne as Fred Graham. The production was directed by Trevor Nunn. The show received positive reviews from critics and audiences.[14] Hannah Waddingham and Alex Bourne were both nominated for the 2013 Olivier Awards as Best Actress/Actor in a Musical for their performances.
2015 Opera North production[edit]
In September 2015 Opera North presented a revival directed by Jo Davies, choreographed by Will Tuckett and designed by Colin Richmond. The production opened at the Leeds Grand Theatre before touring to Theatre Royal Newcastle, The Lowry Salford, and Theatre Royal Nottingham.[15] The production was co-produced with the Welsh National Opera where it opened as part of the Shakespeare400 season in September 2016 at the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff. The production will then tour to Liverpool Empire Theatre, Bristol Hippodrome, New Theatre Oxford, Mayflower Theatre Southampton, Birmingham Hippodrome, Venue Cymru Llandudno before returning to Cardiff in December 2016.[16] Both productions starred Jeni Bern as Lili/Kate and Quirijn de Lang as Petruchio/Fred.
The production is set to transfer to London Coliseum from 20 – 30 June 2018, following a return visit to Leeds Grand Theatre in May 2018.
Upcoming 2019 Broadway revival[edit]
The Roundabout Theatre Company plans to mount the third Broadway revival of Kiss Me, Kate beginning in February 2019 with Kelli O'Hara as Lilli Vanessi. The production is set to be directed by Scott Ellis and choreographed by Warren Carlyle. Roundabout produced a benefit concert of the show with O'Hara, Ellis and Carlyle, in 2016.[17]
Casts[edit]
Original Casts for major American productions[edit]
Character
Original Broadway Cast (1948)[18]
First Broadway Revival (1952)[19]
Second Broadway Revival (1999)[18]
Fred Graham/Petruchio
Alfred Drake Robert Wright Brian Stokes Mitchell
Lilli Vanessi/Katharine
Patricia Morison Holly Harris Marin Mazzie
Bill Calhoun/Lucentio
Harold Lang Frank Derbas Michael Berresse
Lois Lane/Bianca
Lisa Kirk Marilyn Day Amy Spanger
First Man
Harry Clark Hank Henry Lee Wilkof
Second Man
Jack Diamond Sparky Kaye Michael Mulheren
Harrison Howell
Denis Green Lionel Ince Ron Holgate
Henry Trevor/Baptista
Thomas Holer Nat Burns John Horton
Hattie
Annabelle Hill Lillyan Brown Adriane Lenox
Paul
Lorenzo Fuller Bobby Johnson Stanley Wayne Mathis
Plot[edit]
Act I
The cast of a musical version of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is rehearsing for the opening of the show that evening ("Another Op'nin', Another Show"). Egotistical Fred Graham is the director and producer and is starring as Petruchio, and his movie-star ex-wife, Lilli Vanessi, is playing Katherine. The two seem to be constantly arguing, and Lilli is particularly angry that Fred is pursuing the sexy young actress Lois Lane, who is playing Bianca. After the rehearsal, Lois's boyfriend Bill appears; he is playing Lucentio, but he missed the rehearsal because he was gambling. He tells her that he signed a $10,000 IOU in Fred's name, and Lois reprimands him ("Why Can't You Behave?").
Before the opening, Fred and Lilli meet backstage, and Lilli shows off her engagement ring from Washington insider Harrison Howell, reminding Fred that it's the anniversary of their divorce. They recall the operetta in which they met, which included "Wunderbar", a Viennese waltz; they end up fondly reminiscing and singing and dancing. Two gangsters show up to collect the $10,000 IOU, and Fred replies that he never signed it. The gangsters obligingly say they will give him time to remember it and will return later. In her dressing room, Lilli receives flowers from Fred, and she declares that she is still "So In Love" with him. Fred tries to keep Lilli from reading the card that came with the flowers, which reveals that he really intended them for Lois. However, Lilli takes the card with her onstage, saying she will read it later.
The show begins ("We Open in Venice"). Baptista, Katherine and Bianca's father, will not allow his younger daughter Bianca to marry until his older daughter Katherine is married. However, she is shrewish and ill-tempered, and no man desires to marry her. Three suitors – Lucentio, Hortensio, and Gremio – try to woo Bianca, and she says that she would marry any of them ("Tom, Dick, or Harry"). Petruchio, a friend of Lucentio, expresses a desire to marry into wealth ("I've Come to Wive it Wealthily in Padua"[5]). The suitors hatch a plan for him to marry Kate, as Baptista is rich. Kate, however, has no intentions of getting married ("I Hate Men"). Petruchio attempts to woo her ("Were Thine That Special Face"). Offstage, Lilli has an opportunity to read the card. She walks on stage off-cue and begins hitting Fred, who, along with the other actors, tries to remain in character as Baptista gives Petruchio permission to marry Kate. Lilli continues to strike Fred, and he ends up spanking her. Offstage, Lilli furiously declares she is leaving the show. However, the gangsters have reappeared, and Fred tells them that if Lilli quits, he'll have to close the show and won't be able to pay them the $10,000. The gangsters force her to stay at gunpoint. Back onstage, Bianca and Lucentio dance while the chorus performs "We Sing of Love", covering a scene change. The curtain opens, revealing the exterior of a church; Petruchio and Kate have just been married, and they exit the church; the gangsters, dressed in Shakespearean costume, are onstage to make sure that Lilli stays. Petruchio implores for Kate to kiss him, and she refuses. He lifts her over his shoulder and carries her offstage while she pummels his shoulder with her fists ("Kiss Me Kate").
Act II
During the show's intermission, the cast and crew relax in the alley behind the theater. Paul (Fred's assistant), along with a couple other crew members, lament that it's "Too Darn Hot" to meet their lovers that night. The play continues, and Petruchio tries to 'tame' Katherine and mourns for his now-lost bachelor life ("Where Is the Life That Late I Led?"). Off-stage, Lilli's fiancé Harrison Howell is looking for Lilli. He runs into Lois, and she recognizes him as a former lover but promises not to tell Lilli. Bill is shocked to overhear this, but Lois tells him that even if she is involved with other men, she is faithful to him in her own way ("Always True to You in My Fashion"[5]). Lilli tries to explain to Howell that she is being forced to stay at the theatre by the gangsters, but Howell doesn't believe her and wants to discuss wedding plans. Fred insidiously points out how boring Lilli's life with Howell will be compared to the theatre. Bill sings a love song he has written for Lois ("Bianca").
The gangsters discover that their boss has been killed, so the IOU is no longer valid. Lilli leaves—without Howell—as Fred unsuccessfully tries to convince her to stay ("So in Love" (Reprise)). The gangsters get caught on stage and improvise a tribute to Shakespeare in which they explain that knowing Shakespeare is the key to romance ("Brush Up Your Shakespeare"). The company prepares for the conclusion of the play, the wedding of Bianca and Lucentio, even though they are now missing one of the main characters. However, just in time for Katherine's final speech, Lilli arrives onstage ("I Am Ashamed That Women Are So Simple"). Fred and Lilli wordlessly reconcile on stage, and the play ends ("Kiss Me Kate" (Finale)) with them, as well as Bill and Lois, kissing passionately.
Song list[edit]
Act I
"Another Op'nin', Another Show" – Hattie and Company
"Why Can't You Behave?" – Lois Lane and Bill Calhoun
"Wunderbar" – Fred Graham and Lilli Vanessi
"So in Love" – Lilli Vanessi
"We Open in Venice" – Fred Graham, Lilli Vanessi, Lois Lane and Bill Calhoun
"Tom, Dick or Harry" – Bianca, Lucentio, Gremio and Hortensio
"I've Come to Wive it Wealthily in Padua" – Fred Graham and The Men
"I Hate Men" – Lilli Vanessi
"Were Thine That Special Face" – Fred Graham
"We Sing of Love (Cantiamo D'Amore)" – Lois Lane, Bill Calhoun and Ensemble
"Kiss Me, Kate" – Fred Graham, Lili Vanessi and Ensemble
Act II
"Too Darn Hot" – Paul and Ensemble
"Where is the Life That Late I Led?" – Fred Graham
"Always True to You in My Fashion" – Lois Lane
"From This Moment On" – Harrison Howell and Lilli Vanessi
"Bianca" – Bill Calhoun and Company
"So in Love" (Reprise) – Fred Graham
"Brush Up Your Shakespeare" – First Gangster and Second Gangster
"I Am Ashamed That Women Are So Simple" – Lilli Vanessi
"Kiss Me, Kate" (Reprise = Finale) – Company
Notes
For the 1999 revival,"From This Moment On", originally from Porter's 1951 musical Out of This World, was added to Act II between "Always True to You in My Fashion" and "Bianca".
In 1998, the original cast recording of the 1948 Broadway production was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
Film and television[edit]
A film version of the same name was released in 1953. There have been at least four television productions, the first on Hallmark Hall of Fame in 1958, with Drake and Morison reprising their Broadway roles, the second recorded for the launch of BBC Two in the UK in 1964, starring Howard Keel, Patricia Morison and Millicent Martin, the third in 1968 with then husband-and-wife team Robert Goulet and Carol Lawrence, and the fourth in 2003 on Great Performances, a high-definition shot performance of the London revival with Brent Barrett and Rachel York.
Awards and nominations[edit]
Original Broadway production[edit]
Year
Award
Category
Nominee
Result
1949 Tony Award Best Musical Won
Best Author (Musical) Samuel and Bella Spewack Won
Best Original Score Cole Porter Won
Best Costume Design Lemuel Ayers Won
Best Producer of a Musical Saint Subber and Lemuel Ayers Won
1999 Broadway revival[edit]
Year
Award
Category
Nominee
Result
2000 Tony Award Best Revival of a Musical Won
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical Brian Stokes Mitchell Won
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical Marin Mazzie Nominated
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical Michael Berresse Nominated
Lee Wilkof Nominated
Michael Mulheren Nominated
Best Direction of a Musical Michael Blakemore Won
Best Choreography Kathleen Marshall Nominated
Best Orchestrations Don Sebesky Won
Best Scenic Design Robin Wagner Nominated
Best Costume Design Martin Pakledinaz Won
Best Lighting Design Peter Kaczorowski Nominated
Drama Desk Award Outstanding Revival of a Musical Won
Outstanding Actor in a Musical Brian Stokes Mitchell Won
Outstanding Actress in a Musical Marin Mazzie Nominated
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical Michael Mulheren Nominated
Lee Wilkof Nominated
Outstanding Director of a Musical Michael Blakemore Nominated
Outstanding Choreography Hanya Holm Nominated
Outstanding Orchestrations Don Sebesky Won
Outstanding Set Design Robin Wagner Won
Outstanding Costume Design Martin Pakledinaz Won
2001 London revival[edit]
Year
Award
Category
Nominee
Result
2002 Laurence Olivier Award Best Musical Revival Nominated
Best Actor in a Musical Brent Barrett Nominated
Best Actress in a Musical Marin Mazzie Nominated
Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical Nancy Anderson Nominated
Michael Berresse Nominated
Best Director of a Musical Michael Blakemore Nominated
Best Theatre Choreographer Kathleen Marshall Nominated
Best Set Design Robin Wagner Nominated
Best Costume Design Martin Pakledinaz Nominated
Evening Standard Award Best Musical Won
Critics Circle Award Best Musical Won
2012 London revival[edit]
Year
Award
Category
Nominee
Result
2013[20] Laurence Olivier Award Best Musical Revival Nominated
Best Actor in a Musical Alex Bourne Nominated
Best Actress in a Musical Hannah Waddingham Nominated
Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical Adam Garcia Nominated
Best Theatre Choreographer Stephen Mear Nominated
Notes[edit]
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^ Jump up to: a b c Gilliland, John (1994). Pop Chronicles the 40s: The Lively Story of Pop Music in the 40s (audiobook). ISBN 978-1-55935-147-8. OCLC 31611854. Tape 4, side B.
Jump up ^ "OTAGE "Kiss Me,Kate", has something new". The Argus (32,892). Melbourne. 4 February 1952. p. 2. Retrieved 10 June 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
Jump up ^ "AusStage – Kiss Me, Kate". www.ausstage.edu.au. Retrieved June 10, 2017.
Jump up ^ "'Kiss Me, Kate' for Adelaide". The News. 60 (9,238). Adelaide. 19 March 1953. p. 11. Retrieved 10 June 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
Jump up ^ Lewis, Anthony. "Sadler's Wells Scores Triumph With Kiss Me, Kate in London", The New York Times, December 26, 1970, p. 10
Jump up ^ Green, Stanley.Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre, Da Capo Press, 1980, ISBN 0-306-80113-2, p. 237
Jump up ^ "Musicals – 1970s".
Jump up ^ "Kiss Me, Kate listing, Victoria Palace Theatre, 2001. albemarle-london.com (archive), retrieved August 27, 2010
Jump up ^ "Kiss Me, Kate". Old Vic Theatre. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
Jump up ^ "Kiss Me, Kate". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
Jump up ^ "Kiss Me, Kate". Kiss Me, Kate. Retrieved 2016-10-04.
Jump up ^ "Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate | Welsh National Opera". www.wno.org.uk. Retrieved 2016-10-04.
Jump up ^ Clement, Olivia. "Kelli O’Hara to Return to Broadway in Kiss Me, Kate", Playbill, November 6, 2017
^ Jump up to: a b "Kiss Me, Kate". IBDB.com. The Broadway League. Retrieved February 14, 2017.
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References[edit]
McBrien, William (2000). Cole Porter. Reprint edition. New York: Knopf. ISBN 0-679-72792-2
Stempel, Larry (2010). Showtime: A History of the Broadway Musical Theater. New York: W.W. Norton and Company. ISBN 0-393-92906-X
Information from the TamsWitmark website
Information from the Imagination website
External links[edit]
Kiss Me, Kate at the Internet Broadway Database
Porter information
PBS article
Review of original Broadway production at Variety
2014 Critical Edition Orchestral score, Vocal score
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William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
Characters
Katherina Minola
Petruchio
Bianca Minola
Baptista Minola
Christopher Sly
Stage adaptations
The Woman's Prize (c1611)
Catharine and Petruchio (1754)
Las bravías (1896)
Der Widerspänstigen Zähmung (1872)
Sly, ovvero La leggenda del dormiente risvegliato (1927)
Kiss Me, Kate (1948)
The Taming of the Shrew (1953)
Ukroshchenye Stroptivoy (1957)
Christopher Sly (1963)
Direct adaptations
1908
1929
1962 (TV)
1967
1980 (TV)
1994 (TV)
Other adaptations
Daring Youth (1924)
You Made Me Love You (1933)
Second Best Bed (1938)
Kiss Me Kate (1953)
Abba Aa Hudugi (1959)
Gundamma Katha (1962)
Manithan Maravillai (1962)
McLintock! (1963)
Arivaali (1963)
Pattikada Pattanama (1972)
Il Bisbetico Domato (1980)
Nanjundi Kalyana (1989)
10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
O Cravo e a Rosa (2000; TV)
Deliver Us from Eva (2003)
The Taming of the Shrew (2005; TV)
Frivolous Wife (2008)
10 Things I Hate About You (2009; TV)
Isi Life Mein (2010)
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Around the World
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Out of This World
Can-Can
Silk Stockings
Happy New Year
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After You, Who?
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C'est Magnifique
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Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
From This Moment On
Get Out of Town
Give Him the Ooh-La-La
Hey, Good Lookin'
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Little One
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Mind If I Make Love to You?
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My Heart Belongs to Daddy
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So in Love
So Near and yet So Far
Tom, Dick or Harry
Too Darn Hot
True Love
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The Nuisance (1933)
The Cat and the Fiddle (1934, Bella)
The Gay Bride (1934)
Rendezvous (1935)
Vogues of 1938 (1938)
Boy Meets Girl (1938)
Three Loves Has Nancy (1938)
My Favorite Wife (1940)
The World at War (1942, Sam)
Week-End at the Waldorf (1945)
We're No Angels (1955)
Something's Got to Give (1962)
Move Over, Darling (1963)
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My Three Angels (1953)
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"Why Can't You Behave?"
"So in Love"
"Tom, Dick or Harry"
"Too Darn Hot"
"Always True to You in My Fashion"
"From This Moment On"
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1947-1975
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Call Me Madam by Irving Berlin (1951)
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