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KISS ME KATE [musical show]
- Title
- KISS ME KATE [musical show]
- Opening Date
- December 30, 1948
- Genre
- musical show
- Production and Recordings Information
- Orig prod. MUSIC & WORDS: Cole Porter. ORCH: Robert Russell Bennett. COND: Pembroke Davenport. CAST: Alfred Drake, Patricia Morison, Lisa Kirk, Harold Lang, Annabelle Hill, Edwin Clay, Charles Wood, Harry Clark, Jack Diamond, Lorenzo Fuller, Eddie Sledge, Fred Davis. (Col OL-4140; CD/Col CK-4140; CD/Prism(E) PLATCD-726 (ALB-2063); CD/Sony SK-60536 (ALB-363), with an addl track; CD/Naxos(E) 8.120788, with addl material (ALB-2210). Excerpts: Morison: "So in Love" (ALB-830, ALB-1535) Drake, Morison: "Wunderbar" (ALB-830, ALB-1420, ALB-2181) Kirk: "Always True to You in My Fashion" Drake: "Were Thine That Special Face" (ALB-1535, ALB-1941) "Where Is the Life That Late I Led?" (ALB-1180, ALB-1941) Clark, Diamond: "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" (ALB-1420, ALB-1941) Hill, chorus: "Another Openin', Another Show" (ALB-1941).)
- 1949 album. VOCALS: Madelyn Russell, Patti Page, Dinah Washington, chorus. (Mercury 10" 25002, with South Pacific)
- 1950 album. COND: Paul Weston. VOCALS: Jo Stafford, Gordon MacRae, chorus. (Cap 10" H-157. Excerpt: Stafford, MacRae: "Wunderbar" (ALB-1941).)
- 1951 records by members of 1951 London prod. COND: Freddie Bretherton. CAST: Patricia Morison (also of orig cast), Julie Wilson (also of 1949 US touring prod), Bill Johnson, Archie Savage, Danny Green, Sidney James. Morison: "So in Love" (78/Col(E) DB-2847) "I Hate Men" (78/Col(E) DB-2847, ALB-2063) Wilson: "Always True to You in My Fashion," "Why Can't You Behave?" (78/Col(E) DB-2848, ALB-2063) Morison, Johnson: "Wunderbar" Johnson: "So in Love" (78/Col(E) DB-2849, ALB-2063) "Were Thine That Special Face," "Where Is the Life That Late I Led?" (78/Col(E) DX-1740, ALB-2063) Green, James: "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" (78/Col(E) DX-1741, ALB-2063) Savage: "Too Darn Hot" (78/Col(E) DX-1741) (All of these records are on ALB-300 & ALB-1675.)
- 1953 album. COND: Lehman Engel. CAST: Lisa Kirk (of orig prod); Helena Bliss (who replaced Patricia Morison in London prod); George Britton. (RCA 10" LPM-3157, with Anything Goes)
- 1953 film soundtrack. ORCH: mostly Conrad Salinger, Robert Franklyn. COND: André Previn. CAST: Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Keenan Wynn, James Whitmore, Tommy Rall, Bobby Van, Bob Fosse, Kurt Kaszner. (CD/Rhino R2-72152. Less complete: CD/CBS AK-46196. Incomplete: MGM 3077; CD/CBS 70278. Excerpts: Miller, Rall, Van, Fosse: "Tom, Dick or Harry" (ALB-941) Rall, Miller, Van, Fosse: "From This Moment On" (ALB-416, ALB-1704, ALB-1835, ALB-2247) Miller: "Too Darn Hot" (ALB-975, ALB-1273, ALB-1704) Miller, Rall: "Always True to You in My Fashion" (ALB-975) Keel, Grayson: "Wunderbar" (ALB-1417) "So in Love" (ALB-1772).)
- 1958 TV prod soundtrack. Alfred Drake (of orig cast): "So in Love" (ALB-620)
- 1959 studio prod. COND: Hill Bowen. CAST: Ivor Emmanuel (of 1951 London cast), Marie Benson, Patricia Clark, Andy Cole, Bryan Johnson, Denis Quilley, Laurie Cornell, chorus. (Camden 482; National Academy 2.)
- 1959 studio prod. COND: Pembroke Davenport of orig prod. CAST: Alfred Drake (also as "Ray Drakely," "Aloysius Donovan," & "Alexis Dubroff"), Patricia Morison, Lisa Kirk, Harold Lang, & Lorenzo Fuller of orig prod; Bob Sands. (Cap STAO-1267; CD/Angel ZDM-764760-2. Excerpt: Kirk: "Always True to You in My Fashion" (ALB-1420, ALB-1424).)
- 1959 studio prod. ORCH & COND: Henri René. CAST: Howard Keel (of 1953 film cast), Anne Jeffreys (of 1949 touring prod & who replaced Patricia Morison in orig prod in 1950), Gogi Grant. (RCA LSP-1984. Incomplete: CD/Sepia(E) 1151, with Show Boat. Excerpt: Grant, Keel, Jeffreys: "Another Op'nin', Another Show" (ALB-1187).)
- 1960 album by Mimi Benzell & Felix Knight. COND: Warren Vincent. (Design DCF-1009, with Can-Can)
- 1962 studio prod. CAST: Earl Wrightson, Lois Hunt, Mary Mayo. (Col CS-8568)
- 1965 studio prod. COND: Johnny Gregory. CAST: Elizabeth Larner, Barry Kent, chorus. (Fontana(E) SFL-13020, with Brigadoon)
- 1967 studio prod. COND: Geoff Love. CAST: Patricia Routledge, David Holliday, Stella Tanner, Geoff Love, Richard Avon, Alan Page, Jill Donahue, chorus. (Music for Pleasure(E) 1126)
- 1968 TV prod soundtrack. ORCH & COND: Jack Elliott. CAST: Robert Goulet, Carol Lawrence, Jessica Walter, Michael Callan, Jules Munshin, Marty Ingels. (Col CSS-645)
- 1987 London prod. ORCH: Ian MacPherson. COND: Timothy Higgs, Robert Tapsfield. CAST: Paul Jones, Nichola McAuliffe, Fiona Hendley, Tim Flavin, Earlene Bentley, Peter Ledbury, Cyril Nri, Peter Alex Newton, Emil Wolk, John Bardon. (CD/First Night(E) CAST-CD-10)
- 1990 studio prod. ORCH: Robert Russell Bennett. COND: John McGlinn. CAST: Josephine Barstow, Thomas Hampson, Kim Criswell, George Dvorsky, Karla Burns, Damon Evans, Robert Nichols, David Garrison, Davis Gaines, John Mark Ainsley, John McGlinn, Simon Green. (CD/EMI CDS-754033-2. Excerpt: Overture (ALB-1391).)
- 1991 record by Julie Wilson of 1949 touring prod & 1951 London prod. "Always True to You in My Fashion" (ALB-1415)
- 1993 studio prod. COND: John Owen Edwards. CAST: Thomas Allen, Diana Montague, Graham Bickley, Diane Langton, Shezwae Powell. (CD/Jay(C) 2-1296)
- 1996 album. COND: Matthew Freeman. CAST: Edmund Hockridge, Janine Roebuck, Jackie Jefferson, chorus. (CD/Carlton(E) 30362-00332)
- 1999 prod. ORCH: Don Sebesky. COND: Paul Gemignani. CAST: Brian Stokes Mitchell, Marin Mazzie, Amy Spengler, Michael Berresse, Adriane Lenox, Stanley Wayne Mathis, Lee Wilkof, Michael Mulheren. (CD/DRG Records 12988. Excerpts on promo CD for 2001 London prod, with five tracks from this CD and video footage from the 1999 Broadway prod: CD/DRG mx L-805-5020-102.)
- 2001 live performance by Carolee Carmello & Burke Moses of 1999 prod in 2001. "So in Love" (ALB-2037)
- Records by members of 1953 film cast. Kathryn Grayson: "Were Thine That Special Face" (1951: ALB-347) "So in Love," "Wunderbar" (1951, with unidentified baritone: ALB-636) Howard Keel: "So in Love" (1984: ALB-958)
- Records by members of orig cast. Lisa Kirk: "Why Can't You Behave?" (1958: ALB-667) (1959: ALB-294) Patricia Morison: "So in Love," "Wunderbar" (1949, TV: ALB-1510) Alfred Drake: "So in Love" (1949: 78/Vic 20-3352, ALB-978, ALB-1187) "Were Thine That Special Face" (1949: 78/Vic 20-3352, ALB-1377) "Wunderbar," "Why Can't You Behave?" (1949, with Jane Pickens: 45/RCA 47-2903, ALB-2267)
- Studio prod. ORCH: Various. COND: Morris Stoloff. CAST: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Keely Smith, Phyllis McGuire, Johnny Prophet, Lou Monte, Dinah Shore, Sammy Davis Jr, Jo Stafford, the Hi-Lo's. (Reprise F-2017; box set CD/Reprise 2-47775, titled "Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre," with addl material)
- Note
- From: Show Music on Record by Jack Raymond
- DigitalID
- loc.natlib.smor.19481230
Last Updated: 08-23-2012