One of many all-time basic musical comedy farces, KISS ME, KATE is making a protracted awaited return to the London stage this summer season for a strictly restricted 15-week season on the Barbican Theatre, starring the multi-award-winning Adrian Dunbar (Ridley, Line of Obligation) making his musical theatre debut as Fred Graham / Petruchio and Broadway musical celebrity and Tony Award winner Stephanie J. Block (Into The Woods, The Cher Present, 9 To five) making her West Finish debut as Lilli Vanessi / Katharine.
From the producer of the smash hit musical Something Goes and A Unusual Loop (each staged on the Barbican), comes this majestic new manufacturing of Cole Porter’s musical masterpiece, premiering on the Barbican Theatre on 4 June 2024 till 14 September.
With music and lyrics by Cole Porter and the unique e book by Bella & Samuel Spewack, this magnificent new manufacturing, directed by Bartlett Sher (The King and I, South Pacific and To Kill A Mockingbird), guarantees a symphony of wit, attraction and musical brilliance for London audiences subsequent 12 months. Becoming a member of the dynamic artistic workforce is famend choreographer Anthony Van Laast, completed costume designer Catherine Zuber and main set designer Michael Yeargan. This all-star artistic workforce have collectively earned a outstanding 20 Tony awards. With an organization of over 50, together with a full-scale orchestra, and that includes Cole Porter classics equivalent to ‘One other Op’nin’, One other Present’, ‘Brush Up Your Shakespeare’, ‘Tom, Dick or Harry’ and ‘It’s Too Darn Sizzling’ KISS ME, KATE is the proper musical spectacle for 2024.
This musical farce which brilliantly showcases Cole Porter’s razor-sharp wit, has received Greatest Musical on the Tony Awards. It’s a complicated, ferociously humorous, present inside a present – which whisks you right into a world of backstage chaos and romantic entanglements as a theatre firm try and placed on a manufacturing of Shakespeare’s ‘The Taming of the Shrew’. The battle of the sexes takes centre stage as former spouses feud, solely to search out the off-stage antics rival the drama on-stage. Throw in quite a few circumstances of mistaken id, confused love, gangsters and a spectacular faucet routine and also you get KISS ME, KATE – which can convey unabashed pleasure to audiences subsequent 12 months.
Entry Performances:
Audio Described: Wednesday 17 July, 7.30pm (Contact Tour 5.30pm) and Saturday 10 August, 2.30pm (Contact Tour 12.30pm)
Captioned: Wednesday 24 July, 7.30pm and Saturday 17 August, 2.30pm
BSL interpreted: Wednesday 31 July, 7.30pm and Saturday 24 August, 2.30pm
