Our 2011 production was Cole Porter and Sam and Bella Spewack’s hit musical Kiss Me Kate.
The show starts in Baltimore and to the opening of a musical version of Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew.” A play-within-a-play unfolds, where each of the four main cast members’ on-stage performance is complicated by what is happening in his off-stage life.
Before the curtain rises on “The Shrew” we find out that Bill has a gambling problem. He tells Lois that he signed a $10,000 IOU for a debt in Fred’s name, instead of using his own name. Not long after Lois begs Bill to stop gambling, two thugs show up at the theatre to make it clear that Bill will have to make good on that IOU.
The score features songs including Another Openin’ Another Show, So In Love, Too Darn Hot and Always True To You In My Own Fashion.
The show raised £350 which was donated to the Rett Syndrome Research Trust.
| Lillie/Kate | Jenny Rigby |
| Fred/Petruchio | Simon Tidball |
| Lois/Bianca | Roma Ridley |
| Bill/Lucentio | Steve Ellis |
| Pops/Priest | Alan Hollaway |
| Hattie/Dresser | Debbie Langford |
| Ralph/Manager | Brian Coles |
| Paul/Dresser | Les Kenny |
| Hortensio | Phil Harrison |
| Harry/Baptista | Les McGowan |
| Gregory/Habb | Geoff Williams |
| Dance Captain | Gilly Meek |
| Flynt/Aide | Eric Emberson |
| Phillip | Richard Speechley |
| Nataniel/Priest | Peter Mowlem |
| General HF | Maxwell Harkness |
| Waitress | Melanie James |
| 1st Gangster | Dave Smith |
| 2nd Gangster | Alan Anders |
| Ensemble | Molly Fear |
| Ensemble | Pam McGowan |
| Ensemble | Teresa Walters |
| Ensemble | Shivashtie Poonwassie |
| Ensemble | Megan Rigby |
| Ensemble | Naomi Wright |
| Ensemble | Juliet |
| Ensemble | Susan |
| Ensemble | Nikki |
| Ensemble | Bryan Goddard |
| Book | Samuel and Bella Spewack |
| Music | Cole Porter |
| Lyrics | Cole Porter |
| Director | Jean Hobson |
| Musical Director | Jean George |
| Choreography | Roma Ridley |
| Stage Manager | Jan Wolfenden |
| Act One | Act Two |
| Another Openin' Another Show | Too Darn Hot |
| Why Can't You Behave | Where Is The Life That Late I Led? |
| Wunderbar | Always True To You In My Fashion |
| So In Love | Bianca |
| We Open In Venice | So In Love (Reprise) |
| Tom, Dick or Harry | Brush Up Your Shakespeare |
| I've Come To Wive It Wealthily in Padua | I'm Ashamed That Woman Are So Simple |
| I Hate Men | Kiss Me, Kate (Reprise) |
| Were Thine That Special Face | |
| We Sing Of Love | |
| Kiss Me, Kate |
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