Music & Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Samuel and Bella Spewack
Based upon Shakespeare's play The Taming of the Shrew

Directed by Matt Welch
Choreographed by Lee Ann Payne
Vocal Direction by Joanne Barczi
Orchestra Direction by Ande Jacobson
Produced by Barbara Morgan & Don Schinski

"Kiss Me, Kate" is a loosely plotted scenario about the out-of-town tryout of a musical version of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew," directed by and starring an Orson Wellesian ham named Fred Graham alongside his ex-wife Lili Vanessi. Cole Porter confined himself to the sweeping emotions of the leading characters. Banking on the convention of two lovers "who can't live with each other and can't live without each other," Porter brilliantly captured the self-delusion and overwrought masochism of romantic egotism. Porter's renderings of the outsized, melodramatic personalities of Fred and Lili were the most truthful things he ever wrote (they were also perfectly embodied by Alfred Drake and Patricia Morison). Thrown together in the out-of-town tryout, Fred and Lili discover the love that binds their considerable egos together, even though Lili is engaged to marry a powerful senator and Fred is involved in a dalliance with a sexy young thing in the show. They realize, much like Kate and Petruchio in the original play, that they are bound to each other.

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The Sunnyvale Community Players performs at the Sunnyvale Community Theatre, located at 550 E. Remington Ave, Sunnyvale, CA.

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