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Cole Porter

Shows · Cole Porter

ComposerLyricist 1891–1964

Witty sophisticate whose clever wordplay and jazz-inflected melodies defined an era.

Also credited on30 works

Anything Goes
Kiss Me, Kate
Can-Can
Fifty Million Frenchmen
The New Yorkers
Gay Divorce
Jubilee
Red, Hot, and Blue
Leave It to Me!
Panama Hattie
Let’s Face It
Mexican Hayride
Silk Stockings
Kiss Me, Kate (1999 Revival)
Anything Goes (2011 Revival)
Kiss Me, Kate (2019 Revival)
Around the World
Du Barry Was a Lady
Happy New Year
High Society
Hitchy-Koo
Out of This World
Paris
See America First
Seven Lively Arts
Something for the Boys
Wake Up and Dream
You Never Know
Fosse
Anything Goes

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In the literature8 passages

  • 2 The original sheet music for Cole Porter’s ‘I Get a Kick Out of You’ (a gift from my Reno Sweeney, Sally Ann Triplett).ebooks/Barrowman, Carole E_/I Am What I Am - Carole E. Barrowman.txt
  • My second person would have to be one of my musical muses, Cole Porter. I imagine he’d be great company and I’d enjoy flirting a little with him. One of the areas of musical theatre that I’d like to learn more about, and perhaps even attempt to tackle some day if the right project should arise, is the art of writing lyrics. Cole Porter wa…ebooks/Barrowman, Carole E_/I Am What I Am - Carole E. Barrowman.txt
  • The opportunity arose when I was performing at the Cannes Film Festival in 2003. I was there as part of the promotion and premiere of the biopic of Cole Porter’s life, De-Lovely, which starred Ashley Judd and Kevin Kline. I had a few lines in the movie, but along with a number of other musical performers, including Robbie Williams, Alanis…ebooks/Barrowman, John & Barrowman, Carole E_/Anything Goes - John Barrowman & Carole E. Barrowman.txt
  • A number of teachers have been, in the words of Cole Porter, ‘the purple light of a summer night’ in my life and, as the saying goes, if you can read these pages, you should thank a teacher too. Along with Bev, Mark Wilson, my English teacher at Joliet West High School, was inspirational. He was responsible for putting me in the gifted En…ebooks/Barrowman, John & Barrowman, Carole E_/Anything Goes - John Barrowman & Carole E. Barrowman.txt
  • As Cole Porter wrote, ‘in olden days, a glimpse of stocking’ may have thrown an audience into a swoon, but if you were in the audience of Sunset Boulevard on occasion, if you were really paying careful attention, you may have seen something even more scandalous. Some actors are known for their quirky dressing-room requests, some for their…ebooks/Barrowman, John & Barrowman, Carole E_/Anything Goes - John Barrowman & Carole E. Barrowman.txt
  • 74 Can-Can , with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, opened on 7 May 1953 and ran for 892 performances.ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt

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