Kiss Me Kate - 1972
By arrangement with Evans Plays
Book by Bella and Sam Spewack
Lyrics & Music by Cole Porter
Production Team
Producer - Billy Love
Musical Director - S. Gordon Lang
Choreographer - Margaret Lewis
Cast
Fred Graham, Actor, Producer, Writer - David Hughes
Harry Trevor - Peter Dalgleish
Lois Lane - Margaret Hay
Ralph (Stage Manager) - A.N. Other
Lilli Vanessi - Betty Rennie
Hatti - Elizabeth Drennan
Paul - Bill Walker
Bill Calhoun - Denis Hannigan
First Man - Robert McCrae
Second Man - Jack Munro
Stage Doorman - Bill Penman
Harrison Howell - George More
"Taming of the Shrew" Players
Bianca (LoisLane) - Margaret Hay
Baptista (Harry Trevor) - Peter Dalgleish
Gremio (First Suitor) - William Henderson
Hortensio (Second Suitor) - Joe McCormack
Lucentio (Bill Calhoun) - Denis Hannigan
Katharine (Lilli Vanessi) - Betty Rennie
Petruchio (Fred Graham) - David Hughes
Nathanial - Bobby Kerr
Gregory - Gordon Hughes
Phillip - Bill Taggart
Haberdasher - William Struthers
The Widow - Elaine Anderson
Blondine - Barbara McElroy
Singing And Dancing Ensemble
Elaine Anderson, Rhona Blair, Agnes Campbell, France Doyle, Ann Collins, Ella
Forrest, Aileen Finlay, Rita Hindle, Barbara McElroy, Joyce McFadyen, Dorothy
Maule, Betty Roberts, Mae Smith, Elizabeth Struthers, Margaret Strain, Ann
Struthers, Sheen Tran, Maureen Doyle.
Joan Baird, Lesley Gillespie, Dorothy Hornal, Morag McKinnon, Susan Turner,
Yvonne Lavery.
Bobby Kerr, Tom Borland, Colin Dodds, Brian Gillespie, Bill Henderson, Duncan
McKinnon, Bill Roberts, Bill Struthers, Bill Taggart, Gordon Hughes, Tom
McCarroll.
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Synopsis of Music and Scenes
Act I
Scene 1 Stage of Ford Theatre, Baltimore
Another Op'nin, Another Show - Hattie and Company
Scene 2 Back Stage
Why Can't You Behave - Lois
Scene 3 Fred and Lilli's Dressing Rooms
Wunderbar - Lilli and Fred
So in Love - Lilli
Scene 4 Padua - Opening
We Open in Venice - Fred, Lilli, Bill, Lois and Company
Scene 5 Padua - Street Scene
Tom, Dick or Harry - Bianca and Suitors
I've Come to Wive it Wealthily in Padua - Petruchio and Men
I Hate Men - Katherine
Were Thine that Special Face - Petruchio and Dancers
Scene 6 Backstage
Scene 7 Fred and Lilli's Dressing Rooms
Scene 8 Before the Curtain
I Sing of Love - Bianca, Lucentio and Company
Scene 9 Church Exterior
Tarantella - Bianca and Dancers
Finale - "Kiss Me, Kate" - Katherine, Petruchio and Company
Act II
Scene 1 Theatre Roof
Too Darn Hot - Paul, Men and Dancers
Scene 2 Before the Curtain
Scene 3 Petruchio's House
Where Is The Life That Late I Led? - Petruchio
Scene 4 Backstage
Always True to You (In My Fashion) - Lois
Scene 5 Fred and Lilli's Dressing Rooms
Scene 6 Backstage
Bianca - Bill and Girls
Reprise - So in Love - Fred
Scene 7 Before the Curtain
Brush Up Your Shakespeare - Gangsters
Scene 8 Baptista's House
Pavane - Company
I Am Ashamed That Women Are So Simple - Katherine
Reprise - Kiss Me, Kate - Company
Stage manager - David Waters
Club Accompanist - Nan McKechnie, Hazel Syme
Property Masters - Jack McElroy, Bert Blair
Wardrobe Mistress - Evelyn Denton
Lighting - David Roberts
Make-Up - Jean Waters
Leader of Orchestra - Andrew Wilson
Prompter - Irene Roberts
Hon. President - Alex McWilliam
President - David Hughes
Vice-President - William Struthers
Secretary - Alistair Currie
Treasurer - Nancy Hughes
Committee - Elaine Anderson, Denis Hannigan, William Henderson, Bill Roberts, Jack Tait, David Waters.
Performance Details
10th April - 15th April 1972
Duncanrig Secondary School,
East Kilbride
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The curtain rises with the Baltimore opening of a musical version of Shakespeare's
"The Taming of the Shrew". In the show with producer-actor Fred Graham are his
former wife, Lilli, Lois, a singer in whom he is interested, and Bill Calhoun who is
Lois' interest. The irresponsible Bill informs Lois that he has signed Graham's name
to a $10,000 IOU for gambling debts. She begs him to reform. Graham and Lilli
patch up their differences as they reminisce nostalgically about other shows in which
they have appeared together. Graham sends a bouquet to Lois which is delivered in
error to Lilli. As "The Taming of the Shrew" gets under way, Lois as Bianca and Bill
as Lucentio discuss Bianca's inability to marry until her older sister has been affianced.
Graham, as Petruchio, arrives in search of a rich wife and although Katharina, played
by Lilli, states her inalterable opposition to males, Petruchio agrees to marry her,
even though she is not the wife of whom he has dreamed. Lilli discovers that her
bouquet was intended for Lois, and threatens to leave the show. Her departure
is prevented by two gangsters who have come to collect the IOU with Graham's
signature. As the first act ends she is raging, both in character and in reality.
