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Kiss Me, Kate (Critical Edition)
Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 3w, 7m
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Sam and Bella Spewack
Critical Edition by David Charles Abell and Seann Alderking
Image: 2019 Roundabout Theatre Company Production (Joan Marcus)
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Cast Size
3w, 7m -
Duration
More than 120 minutes (2 hours) -
Subgenre
Adaptation (Shakespeare), Period, Romantic Comedy -
Target Audience
Appropriate for All Audiences
Accolades
- First recipient of the Tony Award for Best Musical
Winner! Five 1949 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Script and Best Score
Winner! Five 2000 Tony Awards, including Best Revival and Best Orchestrations
Winner! Six 2000 Drama Desk Awards, including Outstanding Revival and Orchestrations
Nominee: Four 2019 Tony Awards, including Best Musical Revival
Winner! 2019 Drama League Award, Outstanding Revival of a Musical
Details
Summary
Cole Porter's classic 1948 show, Kiss Me, Kate, is one of the jewels in Broadway's crown and it is now available for rent in a Critical Edition, edited by David Charles Abell and Seann Alderking. The Critical Edition includes an orchestral score, piano/vocal score, and orchestra parts, all newly engraved to the highest standards. In addition to the complete show (the original Broadway script from 1948), this edition provides alternate keys and dance routines in an appendix and contains a wealth of explanatory notes and other documentation, which are an invaluable new resource for scholars and theatre professionals.
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History
Cast Attributes
- Time Period 1940s/WWII, 16th Century/Elizabethan
- Setting A theatre in Baltimore, 1948 (and Padua, Italy during the Renaissance).
- Features Period Costumes
- Additional Features Stage Combat
- Duration More than 120 minutes (2 hours)
Media
“Utterly, deliriously fun!” – Davi Cote, Observer
“The crowning achievement of Cole Porter’s long and celebrated career on Broadway, Kiss Me, Kate is a valentine to stage folk, a love letter in song linking Shakespeare and showbiz.” – Charles Isherwood, Variety
“You have only to listen to Porter’s score — a swoon-worthy progression of deftly shifting rhythms and sophisticated rhymes and musical motifs — to understand the show’s timeless charm.” – Peter Marks, The Washington Post
“It’s a pleasure to roar at suffering that is big and fake and somebody else’s. Kiss Me, Kate is cleverly constructed to provide that pleasure squared... Porter’s score remains an astonishing encyclopedia of musical comedy style.” – Jesse Green, The New York Times
“I hardly need to extol the smutty, nutty, indelible Porter score, with heaven-sent numbers such as ‘Too Darn Hot,’ ‘Tom, Dick or Harry’ and that deathless show-folk anthem, ‘Another Op’nin’, Another Show.’” – Davi Cote, Observer
“Cole Porter's knockout score [features] such gems as ‘Another Op'nin,' Another Show,’ ‘So In Love,’ and that great second act opener, ‘Too Darn Hot,’ which sets the place on fire!” – Roma Torre, NY1
“Cole Porter's sybarite's delight of a musical... broad, brazen, often shameless and finally irresistible... Kiss Me, Kate asserts that there is still a place for sophisticated, grown-up fun in the New York theater.” – Ben Brantley, The New York Times
Videos
Kiss Me, Kate - 2019 Broadway
"Too Darn Hot" 2019 Tony Awards
"Bianca"
"Tom, Dick or Harry"
"So In Love"
Kiss Me, Kate - Movie Trailer
Photos
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Image: 2019 Roundabout Theatre Company Production (Joan Marcus)
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Image: 2019 Roundabout Theatre Company Production (Joan Marcus)
Music
- Musical Style Classic Broadway
- Dance Requirements Moderate
- Vocal DemandsModerate
- Orchestra Size Large
- Chorus Size Large
Licensing & Materials
- Licensing fees and rental materials quoted upon application.
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