Songs:
"Brush Up Your Shakespeare"
"Wunderbar"
"Always True To You In My Fashion"
"Why Can't You Behave"
"Too Darned Hot"
"Another Op'nin Another Show"
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Bella and Samuel Spewack
Cole Porter's most successful musical, the original production of "Kiss Me,
Kate" opened on Broadway at the New Century Theatre on December 30, 1948 and
ran for 1,077 performances. It garnered five Tony Awards in 1949, the same
number the revival claimed in 2000.
Combine Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew" with Porter's music and lyrics to get KISS ME, KATE an instant success with every cast and audience. This is a play-within-a-play where each cast member's on-stage life is complicated by what is happening offstage.
The Hexagon
Reading
Tuesday 22nd to
Saturday 26th April 2008
Cast:
| Fred Graham/Petruchio | Rob Latimer | |
| Lilli Vanessi/Katherine | Emma Reeves | |
| Bill Calhoun/Lucentio | Paul Stoneley | |
| Lois Lane/Bianca | Lorraine Meechan | |
| First Gangster | Peter Cox | |
| Second Gangster | Stephen Cox | |
| Flynt/Gremio | Chris Faulkner | |
| General Harrison Howell | Brian Bretney | |
| Harry Trevor/Baptista Minola | Michael Schult | |
| Hattie | Jessamy Vincent | |
| Paul | Chris Thomas | |
| Riley/Hortensio | Sean Falkner | |
| Dance Captain | Bella Stebbings | |
| Pops/Padua Priest | Nigel Wilson | |
| Ralph/Ensemble | Chris Goodchild | |
| Stagehand #1 | Chris Howard / Brian Bretney | |
| Stagehand #2 | Chris Reeves | |
| Stagehand #3 | Dan Groves | |
| Wardrobe Lady | Helen Cleeve |
