The run closed June 30, 2019
- Opened
- March 14, 2019
- Closed
- June 30, 2019
- Performances
- 257
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Studio 54
Of the 426 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and record a performance count, this is the 90th 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. |
| 1999 | Martin Beck Theatre Revival · Michael Blakemore | 881 perf. |
| 2001 | Victoria Palace Theatre Transfer |
Who was in it24 named
Kelli O Hara
Mel Johnson Jr
Adrienne Walker
Lance Coadie Williams
John Pankow
Darius Barnes
Derrick Cobey
Haley Fish
Tanya Haglund
Marissa Mcgowan
Justin Prescott
Christine Cornish Smith
Sam Strasfeld
11 of these 24 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 13 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
- Scott Ellis
- Choreographer
- Warren Carlyle
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.