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Kiss Me, Kate
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened May 10, 2011
Closed May 22, 2011

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http://reprise.org/shows/kiss-me-kate

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Reprise Theatre Company concludes it's season in May with one of the most raucous, rowdy and enduring romances of all time, Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate. A mix of an on-stage "Taming of the Shrew" and a backstage "Peyton Place", it's easy to see why this enduring love story was the first ever winner of the Tony Award® for Best Musical. One hit song after another: Wunderbar, So In Love, Why Can't You Behave, Too Darn Hot, From This Moment On - will all have you wanting to Brush Up Your Shakespeare.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



Freud Playhouse
Macgowen Hall
Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90024


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

There are few musicals as perfect as
Kiss Me, Kate, and Reprise's often delightful production, now at UCLA's Freud Playhouse, is a good mix of humor, pathos, and high-flying kicks. Better still, it boasts a true star turn from leading lady Lesli Margherita.

The show is set in 1948 Baltimore, where a theater company is performing a musical version of William Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. Life soon imitates art when the egomaniacal Fred Graham (Tom Hewitt) hires his hostile ex-wife, Lill Vanessi (Lesli Margherita), to co-star despite their volatile relationship. As if that weren't enough drama, complications pile up, including gambling hoofers, promiscuous damsels, and two gangsters wi[...]


Reviewed by Jonas Schwartz on May 13, 2011

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