Kiss Me, Kate

Photos byJeff and Heather Morris

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  • The Cast
  • (order in program)

Lilli Vanessi/Kate (Chrissy Barkhurst-McKinney)

Fred Graham/Petruchio (Esteban Vazquez)

Lois Lane/Bianca (Samantha White)

Bill/Lucentio (Devanté Brown)

 

Ensemble:  Joe Balding, Caleb Bryant, Jenn Fritchley, Allie Harmon, Jeremy Hayes, Katie Herron, Zoie Lanning, Sydney Lewis, Dan Maccabee, Abram Maccabee, Seth Mendel, Megan Molnar, Christine Neumann, Celeste Parsons, Chiara Ridpath, Sandra Russell, Jaelyn Sayers, Ronni Smith, Terrence J. Smith

 

 
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Pops greets some of the actors who have come to Ford's Theatre in Baltimore to perform The Taming of the Shrew.
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The troupe sings “Another Op'nin', Another Show.”
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While the cast rehearses, the opening dance number falls apart:  “Three weeks and it couldn't be worse.”
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Fred Graham, actor/ director/ producer, has found some new talent:  Lois Lane.  But his costar and former wife, Lilli Vanessi, is not happy about it.
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Bill Calhoun has lost $10,000 in a card game and signed the IOU “Frederick C. Graham.”  Louis sings, “Why Can't You Behave?”
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Fred and Lilli recall a happy moment from the past when they sang “Wunderbar!” together in an operetta.
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A pair of Baltimore gangsters come into Fred's dressing room and confront him with Bill Calhoun's IOU for $10,000.
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Fred's dresser, Paul, flirts with Lilli's dresser, Hattie, when he misdelivers Fred's flowers intended for Lois to Lilli.
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Seeing that the flowers match her wedding bouquet, Lilli reveals that she is still “So In Love” with Fred.
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The principal actors in The Taming of the Shrew sing of the weary life of a traveling theater company:  “We Open in Venice.”
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Surrounded by worthy suitors, Bianca, the youngest daughter of Baptista, sings that she is so eager to be married, she will take any “Tom, Dick, or Harry.”  But she cannot marry until her shrewish older sister, Katherine, is wed.
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Newly arrived in town, Petrucchio comes to the rescue, announcing, “I've Come To Wive It Wealthily in Padua.”
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Baptista tries to protect Bianca from her raging sister, Kate the Cursed.
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Lilli discovers that the flowers were really intended for Lois, and she really means it when, as Katherine, she sings, “I Hate Men.”
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Baptista and Petruccio negotiate a dowry for Kate.
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Kate refuses to come out to meet Petrucchio, who sings the love song “Were Thine That Special Face,” but Kate is unmoved.
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Petrucchio tells Baptista that the courtship is going so well, he and Kate plan to wed on Sunday.  Katherine winds up to give him another kick.
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Petrucchio picks up Kate, carries her over to a table, and spanks her.
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Off-stage, Lilli slaps Fred, who dramatically complains to the Stage Manager about his imagined injuries.  Lilli is quitting the show, which will shut it down.
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The gangsters return, and Fred brings them in to Lilli's dressing room to have a heart-to-heart (with pistols) talk with her about staying in the show so Fred can repay his “debt of honor.”
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The villagers of Padua assemble for the wedding of Katherine and Petrucchio, singing Cantiamo D' Amore (“I sing of love”) and dancing.
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The gangsters make sure that Kate arrives at the wedding on time.
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Petrucchio sings “Kiss Me, Kate,” but she refuses. He finally picks her up and carries her off to his house in Verona.

 

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