Kiss Me Kate
From: Tuesday, 16th October 2001
To: Saturday, 24 August 2002
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Synopsis
Based on Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. Two gangsters are despatched to extract a debt from the leading man of a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. They arrive on its First Night, in the middle of a blazing row between the show's stars and end up on stage singing Brush Up Your Shakespeare.
Our Review:
31 October 2001
The Broadway revival of Kiss Me Kate is the show that came to symbolise the resilience of New York theatre after the 11 September terrorist attacks almost closed it. Now imported to London, it's being held up as the show to restore sorely lacking confidence to the West End. But not only are our circumstances markedly different here to New York, it's also a little disappointing that support is so vigorously forthcoming for an old 1948 Broadway warhorse like this, even as new shows - the revivals of the future - are neglected.
While, too, this production marked Broadway's first revival of one of its all-time classics, there's another point to make before I get off my soapbox and just get on with enjoying it, and that's to point out that Kiss Me Kate is far from unfamiliar to us here, what with two admirable London revivals in the last decade and a half alone (care of the RSC and the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park).
This time out, ...
Latest User Review
USER: Whatsonstage.com - 22 August 2002:
Absolute rubbish. Waste of £40.00...
Cast
Rachel York (Lilli Vanessi/Katharine)
Brent Barrett (Fred/Graham/Petruchio)
Nancy Anderson (Lois Lane/Bianca)
Michael Berresse (Bill Calhoun/Lucentio)
Jack Chissick
Nicolas Colicos
Teddy Kempner
Kaye E Brown
Nolan Frederick
Colin Farrell
Vikki Coote
Louise Dearman
Catherine Digges
Rebecca Giacopazzi
Christian Gibson
Peter Hillier
Lizzie Leigh
Barry McNeill
Jo Napthine
Kimmi Richards
Richard Sidaway
Duncan Smith
Sarah Soetaert
Andrew Spillett
Christopher Stewart
Philip Sutton
Alan Vicary
Nick Winston
Annette Yeo
Creative
Cole Porter (Music)
Cole Porter (Lyrics)
Sam Spewack (Book)
Bella Spewack (Book)
Roger Berlind (Producer)
Roger Horchow (Producer)
Nica Burns (associate producer) (Producer)
Michael Blakemore (Director)
Robin Wagner (Design)
Martin Pakledinaz (Costume)
Peter Kaczorowski (Lighting)
Tony Meola (Sound)
Don Sebesky (orchestration) (Other)
David Chase (dance arrangement) (Other)
Paul Gemignani (musical supervision) (Other)
Gareth Valentine (music) (Director)
Kathleen Marshall (Choreographer)
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