Kiss me kate where is the life

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Log in to add yourself as a fan! Kiss Me, Kate. Fred Graham Petruchio. Age Range. Vocal Part s. Similar Songs. Everything Is Beautiful Donny Streakin'! Log in to add to your bookmarks! You Sexy Thing Tyrone Streakin'! Video Clips. Useful Links. Sign Up Already a member? View More. Half-Price Tickets. View More Ticket Discounts. Kiss Me, Kate had a long journey before it arrived in western Germany in this co-production between the Theater Bonn and the Dortmund Opera.

It was roughly when Shakespeare wrote his play about Katherine, the feisty, headstrong shrew of the title who rejects men and marriage and Petruchio's brutal attempts to "tame" her. Some years later, the husband-and-wife writer team of Samuel and Bella Spewack were asked by a Broadway producer to write the book for what would become Kiss Me, Kate, based on a real-life backstage clash that he had witnessed in between an actor couple performing in the Shrew.

In another twist, the Spewacks were themselves engulfed by marriage turmoil, which perhaps explains why the musical's feuding and fighting seems so emotionally genuine.

It debuted on Broadway in late to critical acclaim, in large part for its snappy lyrics. The Bonn Theater overcame the problem of translating lyrics by keeping the songs in their original English.

Brushing aside a few moments where western twang oddly crept in, the cast's diction was superb, but the switch between German dialogue and English singing was a little disconcerting and the need for non-English speakers to read the supertitles meant that their attention was diverted from the action onstage.

And the action onstage was the true star of the show. While Kiss Me, Kate lends itself to being likeable, a production still has to be good — and Martin Duncan's direction and Nick Winston's choreography went far beyond good.

Winston's dance work was stylish, sharp in detail and electrifying. It's no surprise that the dance-heavy second act opener, "It's Too Darn Hot," earned the loudest applause of any number by far. Duncan, meanwhile, gave the dramatic action a blistering pace that played up the farcical and barely gave one's cheeks a respite from smiling.

Duncan had her take the upper hand — literally — by spinning Graham around and dipping him into a kiss as the curtain dropped.

Francis O'Connor's costumes and sets were fun and functional for the musical's back-and-forth between on- and off-stage. That the bright colors appeared nonetheless slightly flat seemed to underline that the onstage antics were not supposed to be taken as a close reflection of real life. Boris Kahnert lighting also used color with good exaggeration, such as drenching the opening to Katharine's song "I hate men" in stop-sign red.