"reviewers as being extremely physical. Lunt and Fontanne were the most famous celebrity couple of the time, and their backstage fights were rumoured to be just as ferocious as their on-stage performances. So legendary did the tempestuous reputation of the couple become that Cole Porter's 1948 musical ""Kiss Me, Kate"", about a fiery couple attempting to stage an adaptation of ""The Taming of the Shrew"", was based on their real-life antics. In the latter half of the twentieth century, the play has been frequently staged all over the world. Some notable productions include: ""The Shrew""s popularity on stage has continued"
"The Taming of the Shrew (Giannini) The Taming of the Shrew is an opera in three acts by composer Vittorio Giannini. The work uses an English language libretto by Dorothy Fee and the composer which is based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name. The opera premiered at the Cincinnati Music Hall on January 31, 1953 in a concert performance starring Dorothy Short as Katharina, Robert Kircher as Petruchio, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and conductor Thor Johnson. Considered Giannini's most popular work, it was one of three finalists named for the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1953. Giannini began"
"work with singers Julian Patrick (Petruchio) and Anna Moffo (Katharina). The Taming of the Shrew (Giannini) The Taming of the Shrew is an opera in three acts by composer Vittorio Giannini. The work uses an English language libretto by Dorothy Fee and the composer which is based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name. The opera premiered at the Cincinnati Music Hall on January 31, 1953 in a concert performance starring Dorothy Short as Katharina, Robert Kircher as Petruchio, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and conductor Thor Johnson. Considered Giannini's most popular work, it was one of three finalists named"
"adapted as both a musical play called ""Kiss Me, Kate"", which opened on Broadway in 1948, and as the 1953 Hollywood musical of the same name. ""The Taming of the Shrew"" was again retold in 1999 as a teen comedy set in a high school in ""10 Things I Hate about You"", and also in 2003 as an urban romantic comedy, ""Deliver Us from Eva"". The 1961 musical film ""West Side Story"" was adapted from ""Romeo and Juliet"", with its first incarnation as a Broadway musical play that opened in 1957. The animated film ""The Lion King"" (1994) was inspired"
"Shrek The Musical Shrek The Musical is a musical with music by Jeanine Tesori and book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire. It is based on the 2001 DreamWorks Animation's film ""Shrek"" and William Steig's 1990 book ""Shrek!"". After a trial run in Seattle, the original Broadway production opened in December 2008 and closed after a run of over 12 months in January 2010. It was followed by a tour of the United States which opened in 2010, and a re-vamped West End production from June 2011 to February 2013. Since its debut, the musical's rights have been available for independent"
"Wang Center signed a 40-year lease agreement to operate the theatre with the Shubert Organization, which continues to own the building and property; the theatre reopened after renovation in November 1996. The Boch family became the namesake of the center in 2016, making the full name of the theatre the Shubert Theatre at the Boch Center. Shubert Theatre (Boston) The Shubert Theatre is a theatre in Boston, Massachusetts, at 263-265 Tremont Street in the Boston Theater District. It opened on January 24, 1910, with a production of Shakespeare's ""The Taming of the Shrew"" starring E.H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe. Architect"
"Shubert Theatre (Boston) The Shubert Theatre is a theatre in Boston, Massachusetts, at 263-265 Tremont Street in the Boston Theater District. It opened on January 24, 1910, with a production of Shakespeare's ""The Taming of the Shrew"" starring E.H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe. Architect Thomas M. James (Hill, James, & Whitaker) designed the building, which seats approximately 1,600 people. Originally conceived as The Lyric Theatre by developer Charles H. Bond, it was taken over by The Shubert Organization in 1908 after Bond's death. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. In February 1996, the"
"replacement, ""Forever."" Shrek The Musical Shrek The Musical is a musical with music by Jeanine Tesori and book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire. It is based on the 2001 DreamWorks Animation's film ""Shrek"" and William Steig's 1990 book ""Shrek!"". After a trial run in Seattle, the original Broadway production opened in December 2008 and closed after a run of over 12 months in January 2010. It was followed by a tour of the United States which opened in 2010, and a re-vamped West End production from June 2011 to February 2013. Since its debut, the musical's rights have been available"
"when the London production of ""Kiss Me, Kate"" opened on 8 March 1951 at the Coliseum Theatre where it ran for 400 performances. Patricia Morison (who starred in the original Broadway production of ""Kiss Me Kate""), Marin Mazzie, and Hannah Waddingham have all performed versions of the song. It was also the opening number of episode 514 of The Muppet Show Another Op'nin', Another Show ""Another Op'nin', Another Show"" is the opening number of Cole Porter's 1948 musical ""Kiss Me, Kate"". Sung by a band of players performing a musical adaption of Shakespeare's ""The Taming of the Shrew"", the song"
"late to save him. Starring Aureliano Pertile and Mercedes Llopart, it was first performed at La Scala in Milan. Rudolf Karel's ""The Taming of the Shrew"" is an unfinished opera upon which he worked between 1942 and 1944. Philip Greeley Clapp's ""The Taming of the Shrew"" (1948) was first performed at the Metropolitan Opera. Vittorio Giannini's ""The Taming of the Shrew"" (1953) is an opera buffa, with libretto by Giannini and Dorothy Fee. It was first performed at the Cincinnati Music Hall, starring Dorothy Short and Robert Kircher. Vissarion Shebalin's ""Ukroshchenye stroptivoy"" (1957), with libretto by Abram Akimovich Gozenpud, was"
"fights became legendary. The musical tells the story of a husband and wife acting duo (Fred and Lilli) attempting to stage ""The Taming of the Shrew"", but whose backstage fights keep getting in the way. The musical opened on Broadway at the New Century Theatre in 1948, running for a total of 1,077 performances. Directed by John C. Wilson with choreography by Hanya Holm, it starred Patricia Morison and Alfred Drake. The production moved to the West End in 1951, directed by Samuel Spewack with choreography again by Holm, and starring Patricia Morrison and Bill Johnson. It ran for 501"
"and prompting a small Broadway success and a national tour. Other notable productions of the 20th century that follow this trend of relocating Shakespeare's plays are H.K. Ayliff's ""Macbeth"" of 1928 set on the battlefields of World War I, Welles' ""Julius Caesar"" of 1937 based on the Nazi rallies at Nuremberg, and Thacker's ""Coriolanus"" of 1994 costumed in the manner of the French Revolution. In 1978, a deconstructive version of ""The Taming of the Shrew"" was performed at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. The main character walked through the audience toward the stage, acting drunk and shouting sexist comments before he"
"The Smallest Show on Earth (musical) The Smallest Show on Earth is a musical based on the 1957 British Lion film, now in the StudioCanal film library, which starred Peter Sellers and Margaret Rutherford. The stage musical incorporates songs by Irving Berlin. It was the idea of director Thom Southerland, who wrote the script for the musical with Paul Alexander. The first production of the musical opened at The Mercury Theatre Colchester on 25 September 2015. The British Lion film is not a musical, so the principal difference between the British Lion film script by William Rose and John Eldridge,"
"for their fantasy ""Finian's Rainbow"" (1947, 725 performances); and Cole Porter found inspiration in William Shakespeare's ""The Taming of the Shrew"" for ""Kiss Me, Kate"" (1948, 1,077 performances). The American musicals overwhelmed the old-fashioned British Coward/Novello-style shows, one of the last big successes of which was Novello's ""Perchance to Dream"" (1945, 1,021 performances). The formula for the Golden Age musicals reflected one or more of four widely held perceptions of the ""American dream"": That stability and worth derives from a love relationship sanctioned and restricted by Protestant ideals of marriage; that a married couple should make a moral home with"
"at the Cambridge Theatre and its Broadway premiere on 11 April 2013 at the Shubert Theatre. ""Matilda"" has received widespread critical acclaim and box-office popularity, winning seven 2012 Olivier Awards, including Best New Musicalat the time, the most such awards ever won by a single show. At the 2013 Olivier Awards, the show jointly held the record with the play ""The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"" before both were overtaken by ""Harry Potter and the Cursed Child"" in 2017 with 9 awards, however ""Matilda"" still holds the record for most Olivier awards won by a musical, tying"
"The Taming of the Shrew (Shebalin) The Taming of the Shrew (Russian ""Ukroshchenye stroptivoy"", Cyrillic ""Укрощение строптивой"") is a 1957 opera in four acts, five scenes by Vissarion Shebalin to a libretto by the Soviet musicologist Abram Akimovich Gozenpud, based on the comedy by William Shakespeare. Gozenpud utilized very little of Shakespeare's original text in his libretto, and completely eliminated many of the secondary characters and subplots from the play. His libretto does match the spirit of Shakespeare's play in its use of wit, the genuine passion of the story's lovers, and mixture of both lofty and coarse language. ""Ukroshcheniye"
"two other pluses in Bob Tomson's always energetic production, notably Mick Bearwish's vaulty, Thames-side set and Powell himself."" Sherlock Holmes: The Musical Sherlock Holmes - The Musical is a musical based on characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, with music, lyrics and book by Leslie Bricusse. The story concerns a 1901 confrontation between Holmes and his old arch-enemy, Professor Moriarty; Moriarty's brilliant daughter Bella proves to be an even more determined (and beautiful) foe than her father. The musical opened on 22 October 1988 at the Northcott Theatre, in Exeter, England, and ran for a limited season of five"
"Matilda the Musical Matilda the Musical is a stage musical based on the 1988 children's novel of the same name by Roald Dahl. It was adapted by Dennis Kelly, with music and lyrics by Tim Minchin. The musical's narrative centres on Matilda, a precocious 5-year-old girl with the gift of telekinesis, who loves reading, overcomes obstacles caused by her family and school, and helps her teacher to reclaim her life. After a twelve-week trial run staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) at Stratford-upon-Avon from November 2010 to January 2011, it received its West End premiere on 24 November 2011"
"after ""Me"". Kiss Me Kate (film) Kiss Me Kate is a 1953 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film adaptation of the Broadway musical of the same name. Inspired by ""The Taming of the Shrew"", it tells the tale of musical theater actors Fred Graham and Lilli Vanessi, who were once married, and are now performing opposite each other in the roles of Petruchio and Katherine in a Broadway-bound musical version of William Shakespeare's play. Already on poor terms, the pair begin an all-out emotional war mid-performance that threatens the production's success. The only thing keeping the show together are threats from a pair of"
"The Taming of the Shrew in performance ""The Taming of the Shrew"" in performance has had an uneven history. Popular in Shakespeare's day, the play fell out of favour during the seventeenth century, when it was replaced on the stage by John Lacy's ""Sauny the Scott"". The original Shakespearean text was not performed at all during the eighteenth century, with David Garrick's adaptation ""Catharine and Petruchio"" dominating the stage. After over two hundred years without a performance, the play returned to the British stage in 1844, the last Shakespeare play restored to the repertory. However, it was only in the"
"in 1958, Tommy Steele in ""Half a Sixpence"" in 1963 (678 performances), Bruce Forsyth in ""Little Me"" in 1964 (334 performances), ""The Black Mikado"" (1975–76), and in the late 1970s the Kander and Ebb musical ""Chicago"" ran for 590 performances. More recently the 'rock'n'roll' musical ""Return to the Forbidden Planet"", which was based on Shakespeare's ""The Tempest"" and used 1950s and 1960s songs opened in September 1989 and lasted until early 1993, winning the Olivier Award for Best New Musical—beating the favourite, ""Miss Saigon"". The controversial show ""Jerry Springer - The Opera"" had a run from 14 October 2003 –"
"thus add layers of nuance and doubt to her pronouncement, Garrick's play concludes after these lines. Of the many adaptations of ""The Taming of the Shrew"", the most successful was David Garrick's ""Catharine and Petruchio,"" which was introduced in 1754 and dominated the stage for almost two centuries, with Shakespeare's play not returning until 1844 in England and 1887 in the United States, although Garrick's version was still being performed as late as 1879, when Herbert Beerbohm Tree staged it. In Garrick's version, the subplot is entirely omitted, Bianca is married to Hortensio when the play opens. Consequently, it is"
"Sheep"" by Michael Berkeley (1993), ""Playing Away"" by Benedict Mason (1994), ""The Nightingale's to Blame"" by Simon Holt (1998), Jonathan Dove's ""The Adventures of Pinocchio"" (2007) and ""Swanhunter"" (2009), and ""Skin Deep"" by David Sawer and Armando Iannucci (2009). In July 2009, Opera North premièred ""Prima Donna"", a new opera by Rufus Wainwright, at the Manchester International Festival. Opera North has also given performances of musical theatre works. The first was Jerome Kern's ""Show Boat"" (in collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company) in 1989, and productions of Gershwin's ""Of Thee I Sing"" and Sondheim's ""Sweeney Todd"" followed in 1998. Latterly,"
"""The Taming of the Shrew"" 2006 ""The Tempest"", ""Much Ado About Nothing"", ""The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) "" 2005 ""Hamlet"", ""As You Like It"" 2004 ""Julius Caesar"", ""The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)"" 2003 ""Othello"", ""Macbeth"" 2002 ""A Midsummer Night’s Dream"", ""King Lear"", ""Cymbeline"" 2001 ""Twelfth Night"", ""Measure for Measure"", ""Romeo and Juliet"" 2000 ""The Taming of the Shrew"", ""The Winter's Tale"", ""Hamlet"" The Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival The Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival is an annual Shakespearean theatre festival in Philadelphia. Every year, The Festival produces two or three productions of Shakespeare's plays. Starting out as the Red Heel"
"Sherlock Holmes: The Musical Sherlock Holmes - The Musical is a musical based on characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, with music, lyrics and book by Leslie Bricusse. The story concerns a 1901 confrontation between Holmes and his old arch-enemy, Professor Moriarty; Moriarty's brilliant daughter Bella proves to be an even more determined (and beautiful) foe than her father. The musical opened on 22 October 1988 at the Northcott Theatre, in Exeter, England, and ran for a limited season of five weeks. It then played at the Cambridge Theatre on Seven Dials in London's Covent Garden area from 24"
"high-definition shot performance of the London revival with Brent Barrett and Rachel York. Kiss Me, Kate 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"
"The Taming of the Shrew (ballet) The Taming of the Shrew is a ballet in two acts choreographed by John Cranko to keyboard works by Domenico Scarlatti arranged and orchestrated by Kurt-Heinz Stolze. With scenery and costumes designed by Elizabeth Dalton, it was first presented as ""Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung"" by the Stuttgart Ballet at the Wṻrtembergische Staatstheater in Stuttgart on 16 March 1969. Cranko's ballet is a dance version of William Shakespeare's play ""The Taming of the Shrew"" (1590–1592). The story is a comedy about Petruchio's determination to subdue the irascible Katherine; he woos her, marries her, and makes her"
"than 100 performances for young people and their families and over 110 performances for school audiences. The season included four Kennedy Center-commissioned world premieres: ""The Trumpet of the Swan"", a musical adapted by Pulitzer Prize winner Marsha Norman from the book by E.B. White with music by Jason Robert Brown;"" Mermaids, Monsters, and the World Painted Purple"", a new play by Marco Ramirez; ""Unleashed! The Secret Lives of White House Pets"", a new play by Allyson Currin in collaboration with the White House Historical Association; and ""OMAN...O man!"", a new dance production conceived and directed by Debbie Allen and is"
"Kiss Me Kate (film) Kiss Me Kate is a 1953 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film adaptation of the Broadway musical of the same name. Inspired by ""The Taming of the Shrew"", it tells the tale of musical theater actors Fred Graham and Lilli Vanessi, who were once married, and are now performing opposite each other in the roles of Petruchio and Katherine in a Broadway-bound musical version of William Shakespeare's play. Already on poor terms, the pair begin an all-out emotional war mid-performance that threatens the production's success. The only thing keeping the show together are threats from a pair of gangsters, who"
"Plague! The Musical Plague! The Musical is a musical with book, music and lyrics by David Massingham and Matthew Townend. It is a dark comedy based loosely on the events of the Great Plague of London in 1665-1666. Plague premiered in 2008 at The Questors Theatre in Ealing, London before transferring to C venues at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where it was named a 2008 sell out show. A new production was performed at the 2010 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. It was again performed at C venues with London previews at Upstairs at The Gatehouse. It is 1665 and Clive Hucklefish"
"in the West End on 12 March 2013. The production won 7 Olivier Awards in 2013 (including Best New Play), at the time equaling the record with ""Matilda the Musical"" in 2012, before both were surpassed by ""Harry Potter and the Cursed Child"" in 2017 with 9 awards. During a performance on 19 December 2013, the ceiling of the Apollo Theatre collapsed causing the production to close. It reopened on 9 July 2014 at the Gielgud Theatre. The play closed at the Gielgud on 3 June 2017. The Broadway production debuted at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on 5 October 2014"
"Finding Neverland (musical) Finding Neverland is an original musical with music and lyrics by Scott Frankel and Michael Korie and a book by James Graham. Inspired by the 1998 play ""The Man Who Was Peter Pan"" by Allan Knee and his 2004 adaptation ""Finding Neverland"", the musical made its world premiere at the Curve Theatre in Leicester in 2012, with the reworked version making its world premiere in 2014 at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Following completion of its Cambridge run, the production transferred to Broadway in March 2015. After 17 months on Broadway, the production of ""Finding"
"productions of the musical in Las Vegas and London and the show's national tour. Moore directed the 2005 Broadway revival of ""Steel Magnolias"" and ""Shrek the Musical"", starring Brian d'Arcy James and Sutton Foster which opened on Broadway in 2008. He directed the concert of ""Jerry Springer — The Opera"" at Carnegie Hall in January 2008. Moore, Jeff Whitty, Jake Shears, and John ""JJ"" Garden worked together on a new musical based on Armistead Maupin's ""Tales of the City"". The musical premiered at the American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco, California in May 2011 and ran through July 2011. For television,"