The run closed December 30, 2001
- Opened
- November 18, 1999
- Closed
- December 30, 2001
- Performances
- 881
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Al Hirschfeld Theatre
Of the 368 productions we hold that opened in the 1990s and record a performance count, this is the 23rd 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
| 1948 | New Century Theatre Original · John C. Wilson | 1,077 perf. |
| 1952 | Broadway Theatre Revival · John C. Wilson | 8 perf. |
| 2001 | Victoria Palace Theatre Transfer | |
| 2019 | Studio 54 Revival · Scott Ellis | 257 perf. |
Who was in it47 named
John Horton
Patty Goble
Blake Hammond
Darren Lee
Kevin Neil Mccready
Elizabeth Mills
Robert Ousley
Vince Pesce
Cynthia Sophiea
David Elder
Herb Foster
Janine LaManna
Michael McCormick
Brad Anderson
Michael Arnold
Bill Brassea
Jeffrey Broadhurst
Christopher Coucill
Eugene Fleming
Lisa Gajda
Michael Gruber
Joan Hess
Nadine Isenegger
Lorin Latarro
Kevin Ligon
Corinne Melancon
Max Perlman
Laura Schutter
Lee A Wilkins
25 of these 47 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 22 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
- Michael Blakemore
- Choreographer
- Kathleen Marshall
- Orchestrations
- credited to Don Sebesky
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.
Around this production
Kiss Me, Kate is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and a book by Bella and Samuel Spewack. The story involves the production of a musical version of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and the conflict on and off-stage between Fred Graham, the show's director, producer, and star, and his leading lady, his ex-wife Lilli Vanessi. A secondary romance concerns Lois Lane, the actress playing Bianca, and her gambler boyfriend, Bill, who runs afoul of some gangsters. The original production starred Alfred Drake, Patricia Morison, Lisa Kirk and Harold Lang. Kiss Me, Kate was Porter's response to Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! and other integrated musicals; it was the firs…
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.