Presented in Association with TAMS-WITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY INC. of New York, Co-Opera’s production of Kiss Me, Kate is based on the recently revised version, which re-instates much of the original script that was prudishly cut from the 1948 stage production and the 1953 film. Co-Opera’s version has more of the swagger and bawdiness of Shakespeare’s time.

This delightful musical comedy is about a theatre company putting on a musical version of The Taming of The Shrew, Kiss Me, Kate, and the feuding antics of leading man Fred Graham, and his temperamental ex-wife and leading lady, Lilli Vanessi. Respectively, they portray the Shakespearean roles of Petruchio and Katherine (the Shrew to be tamed, of course!). Throw in a deliciously naughty second lead actress Lois Lane,
her gambling-addict beau Bill Calhoun, as well as a couple of gangsters mistakenly chasing after Bill’s latest debt, and opening night proves to be a very big event, both onstage and off.

Can the feuding Fred and Lilli, still in love with each other despite Fred’s ego and Lilli’s fiancé, get their act together before the curtain goes down on the play?