"to the film version of ""Kiss Me, Kate"", sung by the newly wed Bianca and Lucentio, and her rejected suitors. Some of these changes may seem surprising to present sensibilities; an example is the change of the line ""according to the Kinsey Report"" (in ""Too Darn Hot"") to ""according to the latest report"". In the stage version, the word ""bastard"" is used a handful of times, but this is deleted in the film, replaced with, for example, ""you louse"". However, the scene where Fred spanks Lilli, which some might now consider controversial, was retained. Another change was made to placate"
"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"
"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"
"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 has become regarded as a show business anthem on a level with ""That's Entertainment!"" (from ""The Band Wagon"") and ""There's No Business Like Show Business"" (from ""Annie Get Your Gun""). However, it was not included in the 1953 film version of the musical. Adelaide Hall, playing the role of Hattie, sang ""Another Op'nin', Another Show"" on the West-End stage (400 times)"
"contains a joke dependent upon this pronunciation, and the parody ""The Complete Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged)"" refers to it as ""the anus play"". Shakespeare pronunciation guides list both pronunciations as acceptable. Cole Porter's song ""Brush Up Your Shakespeare"" from the musical ""Kiss Me, Kate"" includes the lines: ""If she says your behavior is heinous,/Kick her right in the Coriolanus."" Based on ""Coriolanus"", and written in blank verse, ""Complots of Mischief"" is a satirical critique of those who dismiss conspiracy theories. Written by philosopher Charles Pigden, it was published in ""Conspiracy Theories: The Philosophical Debate"" (Ashgate 2006). Coriolanus Coriolanus ("
"been reworked numerous times for both cinema and television. Some of the better known adaptations include ""Kiss Me Kate"", a 1953 filmic adaptation of Cole Porter's 1948 musical based on the play, ""McLintock!"" (1963), ""Il Bisbetico Domato"" (1980), ""10 Things I Hate About You"" (1999), ""Deliver Us from Eva"" (2003) and ""Isi Life Mein...!"" (2010). The earliest cinematic adaptation of the play is D.W. Griffith's eleven-minute ""The Taming of the Shrew"", made for Biograph in 1908, starring Florence Lawrence as Katherina and Arthur V. Johnson as Petruchio. The blurb for the film stated ""if we could see ourselves as others"
"""Kiss Me, Kate"" do not include the song. Perhaps the best-known example of this is Frank Sinatra's ""Kiss Me, Kate"" studio album which is part of his four album (four show) project that also includes ""Finian's Rainbow"" (1947), ""South Pacific"" (1949) and ""Guys and Dolls"" (1950) and which he produced in 1963 to promote his fledgling label, Reprise Records; hence the project title, the star-studded ""Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre"". In 1990, theatre historian Miles Krueger conducted an interview with Patricia Morison (who originated the title role in ""Kate"") to discuss the original production as well as the six songs dropped"
"ends (""Kiss Me Kate"" (Finale)) with them, as well as Bill and Lois, kissing passionately. Act I Act II Notes 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"
"has been recorded by many other significant female singers, including Peggy Lee and Ella Fitzgerald. So in Love ""So in Love"" is a popular song, written by Cole Porter, from his musical ""Kiss Me, Kate,"" (opening on Broadway in 1948) based on Shakespeare's ""The Taming of the Shrew."" It was sung in the show by Patricia Morison, reprised by Alfred Drake and further popularized by Patti Page in 1949. The Page recording was issued by Mercury Records as catalog number 5230, and first reached the Billboard chart on February 12, 1949, lasting two weeks and peaking at No. 13. Other"
"steps forward and speaks directly to the audience as herself; ""Well, I must own, it wounds me to the Heart/To play, unwomanly, so mean a Part./What – to submit, so tamely – so contented,/Thank Heav'n! I'm not the Thing I represented."" Cole Porter's musical ""Kiss Me, Kate"" is an adaptation of ""Taming of the Shrew"". The music and lyrics are by Porter and the book is by Samuel and Bella Spewack. It is at least partially based on the 1935/1936 Theatre Guild production of ""Taming of the Shrew"", which starred husband and wife Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, whose backstage"
"1937, Porter was left disabled and in constant pain, but he continued to work. His shows of the early 1940s did not contain the lasting hits of his best work of the 1920s and '30s, but in 1948 he made a triumphant comeback with his most successful musical, ""Kiss Me, Kate"". It won the first Tony Award for Best Musical. Porter's other musicals include ""Fifty Million Frenchmen"", ""DuBarry Was a Lady"", ""Anything Goes"", ""Can-Can"" and ""Silk Stockings"". His numerous hit songs include ""Night and Day"", ""Begin the Beguine"", ""I Get a Kick Out of You"", ""Well, Did You Evah!"", ""I've"
"1955. Early productions included some of the classical works of Shakespeare: ""Hamlet"", ""Richard II"", ""The Taming of the Shrew"", ""Macbeth"", ""Twelfth Night"", and ""The Tempest"". Biographical subjects were very eclectic, ranging from Florence Nightingale to Father Flanagan to Joan of Arc. Popular Broadway plays such as ""Harvey"", ""Dial M for Murder"", and ""Kiss Me, Kate"" were made available to a mass audience, most of them with casts that had not appeared in the film versions released to theatres. In a few cases, the actors repeated their original Broadway roles. Noted actors such as Richard Burton, Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Maurice"
"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"
"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"
"as keeping her from eating and drinking, until she becomes a desirable, compliant, and obedient bride. The subplot features a competition between the suitors of Katherina's younger sister, Bianca, who is seen as the ""ideal"" woman. The question of whether the play is misogynistic or not has become the subject of considerable controversy, particularly among modern scholars, audiences, and readers. ""The Taming of the Shrew"" has been adapted numerous times for stage, screen, opera, ballet, and musical theatre; perhaps the most famous adaptations being Cole Porter's ""Kiss Me, Kate"" and the 1967 film of the play, starring Elizabeth Taylor and"
"musical numbers that were unrelated to the original story. In explaining this decision, Holmes was quoted as saying, ""This is not Nicholas Nickleby set to music--it's not a Dickensian work. It's light and fun and entertaining. But I hope--I think--that Dickens would have enjoyed it."" Holmes has also pointed out that ""It has the same relationship to Dickens that ""Kiss Me Kate"" does to ""The Taming of the Shrew""."" The pantomime concept also allowed Holmes to employ a female in the lead male role, which further allowed him to write a love song designed to be sung by two sopranos."
"Following is a partial list of the many productions put on over the years at BCT: Kiss Me Kate °° The Music Man °° Babes In Arms °° South Pacific °° Sound Of Music °° Guys And Dolls °° West Side Story °° The King And I °° Oklahoma °° Wonderful Towns °° Damn Yankees °° George M °° My Fair Lady °° Annie Get Your Gun °° Gypsy °° Bye Bye Birdie °° How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying °° Carnival °° Camelot °° A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum °° Oliver! °°"
"Years of ABBA"" (2004), ""The Sound of Musicals"" (2006), ""EastEnders"" (2007), and ""Not Going Out"" (2012). Ismay's theatre appearances include ""Cabaret"" (1986) at the Strand Theatre; ""Stop the World – I Want to Get Off"" at the Lyric Theatre (1989); the Royal Shakespeare Company productions of ""Kiss Me, Kate"" (1986–87), ""The Wizard of Oz"" (1988–89) and ""The Comedy of Errors"" (1992–93); Joanna in the original London production of ""Sunset Boulevard"" (1993); ""Next Door's Baby"" (2008); ""Noises Off"" (2009); ""How the Other Half Loves"" (2009); Baroness Bomburst in the 2008 and 2009–10 UK tours of ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang""; Tanya in"
"In 1948, the Cole Porter musical ""Kiss Me, Kate"" premiered on Broadway. The show featured the song ""Tom, Dick or Harry"". The three escape tunnels used by allied POWs in the famous Stalag Luft III escape were named ""Tom, Dick, and Harry"" by the POWs. This nomenclature was carried over to the film ""The Great Escape"", which portrayed the event. Tom, Dick and Harry The phrase ""Tom, Dick and Harry"" is a placeholder for multiple unspecified people; ""Tom, Dick or Harry"" plays the same role for ""one"" unspecified person. The phrase most commonly occurs as ""every Tom, Dick and Harry"","
"musical and dramatic plays, among them ""Milk and Honey, Kismet, The Merry Widow, Song of Norway, Do I Hear a Waltz?, Bell, Book and Candle, The Fourposter, Separate Tables,"" and ""Private Lives"". She performed in still more productions of ""Kiss, Me Kate"" at the Seattle Opera House (opening in April 1965) and the New York City Center (opening May 12, 1965). In August 1972, she appeared in a production of ""The Sound of Music"" at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. In November 1978 she again played the leading role in ""Kiss Me, Kate"" at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre"
"it. ""The Poisoned Kiss"" (1927–1929, premiered in 1936) is a light comedy. Vaughan Williams knew the Savoy operas well, and his music for this piece was and is widely regarded as in the Sullivan vein. The words, by an inexperienced librettist, were judged to fall far short of Gilbert's standards. Saylor sums up the critical consensus that the work is something between ""a frothy romantic comedy [and] a satirical fairy-tale"", and not quite successful in either category. ""Job: A Masque for Dancing"" (1930) was the first large-scale ballet by a modern British composer. Vaughan Williams's liking for long ""tableaux"", however"
"Me, Kate"" and remained there for four years, appearing in shows such as ""South Pacific"" and ""Bells Are Ringing"" while studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. She returned to New York to replace Joan Diener in ""Kismet"". Additional Broadway credits include ""The Pajama Game"" (1954), ""Jimmy"" (1969), ""Park"" (1970), and ""Legs Diamond"" (1988), for which she received a Tony Award nomination as Best Featured Actress in a Musical. She also toured in ""Show Boat"", ""Panama Hattie"", ""Silk Stockings"", ""Follies"", ""Company"", and ""A Little Night Music"". In 1957, Wilson sang with Ray Anthony and his Orchestra, contributing vocals to"
"a casino located at the junction of St. Peters Gate and Bridlesmith Gate, Nottingham. The building used as the location of Iain's flat is situated on Broadway in the Lace Market area of Nottingham. Other locations used throughout the series include the University of Nottingham, the Peacock Inn at Redmile and Nottingham's Victoria Embankment. Kiss Me Kate (TV series) Kiss Me Kate is a British sitcom that ran from 1998 until 2000. It followed the everyday life of a counsellor, Kate (Caroline Quentin), who must not only manage her clients' problems, but must also help her neighbours and unsuccessful business"
"non-Shakespearean story. ""Hamlet"" and ""Romeo and Juliet"" are the two plays which have most often been used in this way. Usually, Shakespeare's story has some parallel or resonance with the main plot. Films featuring characters performing scenes from ""Romeo and Juliet"" include the 1912 and 1982 film versions of Charles Dickens' ""Nicholas Nickleby"", ""Cured Hams"" (1927), ""Drama De Luxe"" (1927), ""Broadway Fever"" (1928), ""Les amants de Vérone"" (1949), ""Marjorie Morningstar"" (1958), ""Carry on Teacher"" (1959) ""Shakespeare Wallah"" (1965) and, significantly, ""Shakespeare in Love"" (1998). The 1941 film Playmates features bandleader Kay Kyser and Shakespearean actor John Barrymore playing themselves in"
"contains the line ""He calls his Kate, and she must come and kiss him."" This must refer to ""The Shrew"", as there is no corresponding ""kissing scene"" in ""A Shrew"". There are also verbal similarities between both ""Shrew"" plays and the anonymous play ""A Knack To Know A Knave"" (first performed at The Rose on 10 June 1592). ""Knack"" features several passages common to both ""A Shrew"" and ""The Shrew"", but it also borrows several passages unique to ""The Shrew"". This suggests ""The Shrew"" was on stage prior to June 1592. In his 1982 edition of the play for The"
"when John spurns her affections. In the finale, Salome takes up John's severed head and kisses it. Because at the time British law forbade the depiction of biblical characters on stage, Wilde wrote the play originally in French, and then produced an English translation (titled ""Salome""). To this Granville Bantock composed incidental music, which was premiered at the Court Theatre, London, on 19 April 1918. The Wilde play (in a German translation by Hedwig Lachmann) was edited down to a one-act opera by Richard Strauss. The opera Salome, which premiered in Dresden in 1905, is famous for the Dance of"
"Wilson Orchestra returned to the Proms in 2014 with a semi-staged production of Cole Porter's musical Kiss Me, Kate. The cast included Ben Davis (Fred Graham / Petruchio), Alexandra Silber (Lilli Vanessi / Katherine), Tony Yazbeck (Bill Calhoun / Lucentio), Louise Dearman (Lois Lane / Bianca) and Alex Bourne (Harrison Howell). This was the John Wilson Orchestra's Prom (broadcast on radio and TV) in 2013. It focused almost exclusively on the orchestra itself (rather than vocalists) with performances by the 100+ strong orchestra of scores from ""The Big Country"", ""Ben-Hur"", ""Casablanca"", ""Psycho"", etc., as well as ""Tom and Jerry at"
"Robert and Elizabeth Robert and Elizabeth is a musical with music by Ron Grainer and book and lyrics by Ronald Millar. The story is based on an unproduced musical titled ""The Third Kiss"" by Judge Fred G. Moritt, which in turn was adapted from the play ""The Barretts of Wimpole Street"" by Rudolph Besier. It is an operetta-style musical which tells the story of the romance and elopement of poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett. The original 1964 London production was a success, starring Sir John Clements as Barrett, June Bronhill as Elizabeth and Keith Michell as Robert. Several revivals"
"Tams-Witmark Music Library Tams-Witmark is an American company that provides to professional and amateur theaters license to Broadway musical scripts and scores. Among the many notable properties handled by the company are ""Kiss Me, Kate""; ""My Fair Lady""; """"; ""Bye Bye Birdie""; ""Hello, Dolly!""; ""Cabaret""; ""Man of La Mancha"" and ""A Chorus Line"". The company has also acquired numerous properties often inspired by or based upon motion pictures or comic strips, such as 42nd Street, The Wizard of Oz, Meet Me In St. Louis, You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown, and Li'l Abner. The company has also prepared for licensing"
"appeared onstage for ""Broadway Backwards"" 9, a benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center at the Al Hirschfeld Theater. She sang ""Brush Up Your Shakespeare"" from ""Kiss Me, Kate"". In conjunction with her 100th birthday, the Pasadena Playhouse sponsored an evening with Patricia Morison on March 15, 2015, including an audience Q & A session and selections from ""Kiss Me, Kate"" performed by the guest of honor. Morison was also interviewed in the ""Los Angeles Times"" on March 7, 2015, and by namesake Patt Morrison on KPCC radio in Los Angeles. Morison"
"Kiss Me Kate (TV series) Kiss Me Kate is a British sitcom that ran from 1998 until 2000. It followed the everyday life of a counsellor, Kate (Caroline Quentin), who must not only manage her clients' problems, but must also help her neighbours and unsuccessful business partner, Douglas, played by Chris Langham. Amanda Holden played Mel, the receptionist. Darren Boyd played the idiotic Craig, the travel agent downstairs. During the series, both Craig and Douglas fall for Kate. Mel and Craig become romantically involved, but Douglas continues to be in love with Kate. Kate then falls for Douglas's brother, Iain"
"words, Shakespeare ""invented the formula that the sexual becomes the erotic when crossed by the shadow of death"". Of Shakespeare's works, ""Romeo and Juliet"" has generated the most—and the most varied—adaptations, including prose and verse narratives, drama, opera, orchestral and choral music, ballet, film, television, and painting. The word ""Romeo"" has even become synonymous with ""male lover"" in English. ""Romeo and Juliet"" was parodied in Shakespeare's own lifetime: Henry Porter's ""Two Angry Women of Abingdon"" (1598) and Thomas Dekker's ""Blurt, Master Constable"" (1607) both contain balcony scenes in which a virginal heroine engages in bawdy wordplay. The play directly influenced"
"So in Love ""So in Love"" is a popular song, written by Cole Porter, from his musical ""Kiss Me, Kate,"" (opening on Broadway in 1948) based on Shakespeare's ""The Taming of the Shrew."" It was sung in the show by Patricia Morison, reprised by Alfred Drake and further popularized by Patti Page in 1949. The Page recording was issued by Mercury Records as catalog number 5230, and first reached the Billboard chart on February 12, 1949, lasting two weeks and peaking at No. 13. Other versions which were popular that year were by Gordon MacRae and Dinah Shore. The song"