Kiss Me, Kate
Book by Samuel and Bella Spewack
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Directed by Mary Ann Rodgers
Opens:
Friday, June 27, 2008
Runs:
8 pm, Friday & Saturday, June 27 to August 3 (No performance July 4)
Matinees:
Sunday at 2 pm, July 6-27, August 3
Tickets:
$24, $15 age 16 & under
Winner of the First Tony Award for "Best Musical" in 1949
Inspired by "The Taming of the Shrew," this show revolves around two once-married theatre actors performing opposite each other as Petruchio and Katherine in a Broadway-bound musical version of Shakespeare's play. Already on poor terms, they begin an all-out emotional war that promises to hinder the production's success. The only things keeping it together are threats from two gangsters trying to collect a gambling debt from the show's Lucentio. Slapstick madness ensues before a happy resolution.
"A musical for real musical lovers."- The BBC