Kiss Me, Kate

A one-night only benefit concert reading of Kiss Me, Kate by Sam and Bella Spewack with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, starring Kelli O’Hara and Will Chase.

In Cole Porter’s sparkling 1948 musical, the warring lovers of The Taming of the Shrew are causing trouble both onstage and off. While putting on a musical version of Shakespeare’s play, exes Fred Graham and Lili Vanessi can’t decide if they’re enraged, enamored, or enormously confused whenever they cross paths out of character.

Throw in some mistaken identity, a pair of surprisingly eloquent gangsters, and a whole lot of romantic entanglements, and what you get is Kiss Me, Kate — a dazzling classic that earned the first-ever Tony award for Best Musical.

Also stars Robert Fairchild, Heléne Yorke, Chuck Cooper, Richard Kind, Norm Lewis, and John Pankow.