…from the same production team behind West Side Story and Jesus Christ Superstar…
Cole Porter’s classic 1948 musical sets the Taming of The Shrew to music and follows the back-stage bickering of a cast performing “The Shrew” on tour in the American mid-west. The show was famously inspired when producer Saint Subber saw the real-life married acting partnership Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne as they fought their way through a production of Taming of The Shrew.
Kiss Me Kate ran from Tuesday 13 April to Saturday 17 April 2004 at The King’s, Glasgow.
- Read a plot synopsis [theatrehistory.com]
- Kiss Me Kate originally opened at the New Century Theatre on 30 December 1948, with Alfred Drake and Patricia Morison playing Fred and Lilli. It closed in 1951 after 1,070 performances, having won 5 Tony Awards including “Best Musical,” “Best Script” and “Best Score”.
- Kiss Me Kate became a Hollywood film [imdb.com] (in 3D!) in 1953, starring Kathryn Grayson as Lilli, Howard Keel as Fred and Ann Miller as Lois Lane