Kiss Me Kate
From: Monday, 18th June 2012
To: Saturday, 1 September 2012
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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:
28 June 2012
Kiss Me Kate is one of the masterpieces of musical theatre. It offers a host of glorious songs with some dazzling rhymes and a witty script, drawing parallels between a warring pair of actors and the battling duo of Petruchio and Katharine in Taming of the Shrew. Throw in director Trevor Nunn, a veteran of Shakespeare and musicals and we should be in for something special.It’s a pity therefore that this potential is not realised. That’s not to say that it’s not good, it is - and excellent in places - but the production never really catches fire in the way that it should. One of the main problems is the interplay between Taming of the Shrew (the play) and the action backstage: the two should be very different, yet similar, but the division between the two is blurred. For example, it seems strange to have Petruchio enter after that long speech describing his bizarre a...
Latest User Review
Sian Adam - 29 January 2013:
Watched this fabulous stage production at The Old Vic, London. A group of 8 us took a couple of hours to come back down to earth following the exhillarating, entertaining, talented performance....
Cast
Michelle Bishop (Ensemble)
Alex Bourne (Fred Graham/Petruchio)
Kevin Brewis (Riley/Hortensio)
Wendy Mae Brown (Hattie)
David Burt (Gangster)
Christopher Dickins (Pops)
Adam Garcia (Bill Calhoun/Lucentio)
Paul Grunert (Harry Trevor/Baptista Minola)
Mark Heenehan (General Harrison Howell)
Shaun Henson (Ensemble)
Samuel Holmes (Flynt/Gremio)
Holly James (Ensemble)
Richard Jones (Ensemble)
Carolyn Maitland (Ensemble)
Jo Morris (Ensemble)
Harry Morrison (Ensemble)
Jason Pennycooke (Paul)
Tanya Robb (Ensemble)
Clive Rowe (Gangster 2)
Warren Sollars (Ensemble)
Holly Dale Spencer (Lois Lane/Bianca)
Kate Tydman (Ensemble)
Hannah Waddingham (Villi Vanessi/Katherine Minola)
Creative
Cole Porter (Music)
Cole Porter (Lyrics)
Sam Spewack (Book)
Bella Spewack (Book)
Henry Adams (Chichester) (Corporate Sponsor)
Oval Insurance Broking (Chichester) (Corporate Sponsor)
Seaward Properties (Chichester) (Corporate Sponsor)
John Wiley & Sons (Chichester) (Corporate Sponsor)
Bank of America (Old Vic) (Corporate Sponsor)
Merrill Lynch (Old Vic) (Corporate Sponsor)
Festival Theatre (Producer)
Trevor Nunn (Director)
Robert Jones (Design)
Stephen Mear (Choreographer)
Gareth Valentine (Musical Director)
Tim Mitchell (Lighting)
Chris Egan (orchestration) (Music)
Paul Groothuis (Sound)
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