Kiss Me, Kate
| Also known as |
- Add other possible names for this topic
Kiss Me, Kate is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. It is structured as a play within a play, where the interior play is a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew.
Kiss Me, Kate was a comeback and a personal triumph for Cole Porter. After several successful musicals in the 1930s, notably Anything Goes, Du Barry Was a Lady, and Panama Hattie, he experienced an equestrian accident in 1937 that left him in constant pain. Following the accident, he continued to write songs and musicals but with limited success, and some thought he was past his prime. Kiss Me, Kate was a response to Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! and other integrated musicals, and it proved to be his biggest hit and the only one of his shows to run for more than 1,000 performances on Broadway. It won the first Tony Award presented for Best Musical, in 1949.
After a 3½ week pre-Broadway tryout at the Shubert Theatre in Philadelphia starting December 2 1948, the original Broadway production opened on...
full article at wikipedia
Publishing
| Author |
| Editor |
| Date written |
| Copyright date |
| Date of first publication |
| Subjects |
| Original language |
| School or Movement |
| Part of series |
Theater
| Composer |
| Lyricist |
| Orchestrator |
| Country of origin |
| Date of First Performance |
| Characters |
| Productions |
| Soundtracks |
With the exception of Wikipedia summaries and some images the
content on this page is typically distributed under
the Creative Commons
Attribution license or Public Domain.
The original description for this topic was automatically generated from the Wikipedia article "Kiss Me, Kate" licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
| Gallery | add an image | edit gallery |
Recent Discussions about Kiss Me, Kate
no recent discussions
