The run closed July 28, 1951
- Opened
- December 30, 1948
- Closed
- July 28, 1951
- Performances
- 1,077
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- New Century Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 10th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Kiss Me, Kate 4 more that season
| 1952 | Broadway Theatre Revival · John C. Wilson | 8 perf. |
| 1999 | Martin Beck Theatre Revival · Michael Blakemore | 881 perf. |
| 2001 | Victoria Palace Theatre Transfer | |
| 2019 | Studio 54 Revival · Scott Ellis | 257 perf. |
Who was in it62 named
Tom Bole
Mark Breaux
George Cassidy
John Castello
Edwin Clay
Fred Davis
Ann Dunbar
Victor Duntiere
Shirley Eckl
Peggy Ferris
Florence Gault
Denis Green
Thomas Hoier
Jean Houloose
Gay Laurence
Allan Lowell
Ethel Madsen
Paul Olson
Helen Rice
Stan Rose
Ingrid Secretan
Eddie Sledge
Matilda Strazza
Gisella Svetlik
Jean Tachau
Rudy Tone
Charles Wood
Holly Harris
Reed Allyn
Harry Asmus
Angus Cairns
Janet Gaylord
Jean Haas
Tom Hansen
Joan Kibrig
Christine Matsios
Doreen Oswald
June Reimer
Cynthia Riseley
Grayce Spence
Richard Wicks
Marilyn Day
Betty George
Marc Platt
19 of these 62 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 43 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- John C. Wilson, John
- Choreographer
- Hanya Holm
- Producer
- Saint Subber & Lemuel Ayers
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 3 from 3 nominations
| Best Musical | Won |
Around this production
It was the first show to win the Tony Award for Best Musical, in the award\'s inaugural year. Porter, who had been considered past his prime, called it his comeback.
- Cullum played him as John Barrymore, with the love-hate relationship of Oscar and Lily also recalling Fred and Lili in Kiss Me, Kate. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 241
- Wilson, John C. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Kiss Me, Kate Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 387
- West Side Story (1957) and Sensations(1970), both from Romeo and Juliet; Kiss Me, Kate (1948), from The Taming of the Shrew; Swingin'the Dream (1939) and Babes in the Wood(1964), both from A Midsummer Night's Dream; Love and Let Love (1968), Your Own Thing (1968), and Music Is (1976), all from Twelfth Night; Two Gentle… Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 131
- The musicals of the post-Oklahoma! era seemed overly populated with these hoyden Jejune Allyson types (Daisy in Bloomer Girl, Hildy in On the Town, Carrie in Carousel, Lois in Kiss Me, Kate, Cissy in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Lola in Seventeen, and Hilda in Plain and Fancy). Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 57
- (A few years later “From This Moment On” came into its own when it was interpolated into MGM’s 1953 film version of Kiss Me, Kate where it was performed by Ann Miller, Tommy Rall, Bob Fosse, Bobby Van, Jeannie Coyne, and Carol Haney.) Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 116
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for Kiss Me, Kate at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.