Kiss Me Kate
  KISS ME KATE

17th to 20th March 2004

Director:  Ann Mitchell-Hooton
Musical Director:  Ian White

A Cole Porter classic set during an out of town tryout for a musical based on Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew.
Actor/Producer Fred Graham and his ex wife Lilli Venessi romance their way through this timeless story.  As with Shakespeare's Petruchio and Kate  - they play on stage in a play within a play.  It's a fight to the finish! 
A musical comedy for all the family. Classic songs include:
 "Another Op'nin', Another show",  "Too Darn Hot",  "Wonderbar", "So in Love am I", "Tom  Dick or Harry"  &  "Brush up your Shakespeare".

The musical is by arrangement with Musicscope & Stage Musical Ltd of New York.
 Music & Lyrics by Cole Porter.  Book by Bella  & Samuel Spewack.


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List of characters and Casting:
Fred Graham / Petruchio William Revels Lilli Vanessi / Katherine  Carole Paternoster
Lois Land / Bianka Pam Stringer Bill Calhoun / Lucentio Chris Bick
Harry Trevor / Baptista John Parkinson First Gangster Alan Pennels
Second Gangster Anthony Towers Hattie Sally Campbell
Hortensio Ian Diggins Gremio  Charlie Van Nimwegen
Harrison Howell Tony Hill Paul  Andy Goman
Ralph Ken Taylor    

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