Watergate Amphitheatre, Saint Subber and Lemuel Ayers present "Kiss Me, Kate," with Frances McCann, Robert Wright, Benny Baker, Marc Platt, Betty George, music and lyrics by Cole Porter, book by Sam and Bella Spewack, choreography by Hanya Holm, settings and costumes by Lemuel Ayers, orchestra under the direction of George Hirst, orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett, musical director Pembroke Davenport, incidental ballet music arranged by Genevieve Pitot, production staged by John C. Wilson.
Cole Porter's musical that incorporates Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew within his own story. This was Porter's 'comeback' musical and was indeed his most successful. Titles: Always True to You in My Fashion * Another Op'nin', Another Show * Bianca * Brush Up Your Shakespeare * I Am Ashamed That Women Are So Simple * I Hate Men * I Sing of Love * I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua * Overture--Kiss Me, Kate * So in Love * Tom, Dick, or Harry * Too Darn Hot * We Open in Venice * Were Thine That Special Face * Where Is the Life That Late I Led? * Why Can't You Behave? * Wunderbar.
Kate was lissa’s best friend. they’ve shared everything for four years. then one night at a drunken party, Kate leaned in to kiss lissa, and lissa kissed her back. And now Kate is pretending lissa doesn’t exist. Confused and alone, lissa’s left questioning everything she thought she knew about herself, and about life. but with the help of a free-spirit new friend, lissa’s beginning to find the strength to realize that sometimes falling in love with the wrong person is the only way to find your footing.
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(Vocal Selections). 8 vocal selections from the 1953 Porter musical, including: Allez-Vous-En, Go Away * C'est Magnifique * Can Can * Come Along with Me * I Love Paris * It's All Right with Me * Live and Let Live * Montmartre.
Phil discovers that Kate, the voice in his Garmin GPS, is a lot more than a disembodied voice. Shes in trouble, and she needs his help! When a couple arrives from cold Rhode Island to their rented condo in Florida, all they can think about is warm temperatures and sunshine. But then the husband walks into a moral dilemma that almost ruins his week in the sun. Betsy decides to memorialize her deceased parents.in a most unusual way. Young, innocent Cheryl shocks her mother by opening the conversation at the familys Sunday dinner with I almost got involved in a bar fight yesterday. Larry Hawkins is a widower, MIT physics professor, and believer in time travel who is anxious to test his inventions and fulfill every old mans fantasy. Roberto Villarreal has no idea a life-changing adventure is about to begin when he picks up a stranger and his granddaughter at a rest stop in Mexico. Mark Tuttle and Sandy Roberts wonder if you can love all your children equally and yet love one more than the others. In the process they discover that Love is infinite. Kiss Me, Kate and Other Stories is a collection of short tales set in a variety of locations and illustrating the depth of the human spirit, the importance of laughter, and the miracle of love.