Kiss me, Kate!

Musical in two acts by Cole Porter

Music and lyrics by — Cole Porter
Book by — Sam and Bella Spewack
Russian text — Polina Melkova and Yury Korneev
Director — honoured artist of Russia Alexander Isakov
Musical leader and conductor — Yury Krylov
Set and costume design — Vyacheslav Okunev
Ballet master — Nikolay Reutov
Chorus master — Olga Safronova

«Kiss me, Kate!» is one of the most well-known musical of American composer Cole Porter who is the author of numerous works for theatre and cinema. It is the only one work of master in which he addresses to William Shakespeares comedy "The Taming of the Shrew". Opening night of musical took place in New-York on 30th of December 1948.

Performance is structured as a play within a play. Actors play on the stage famous Shakespeares comedy performing parts of main characters - Katharine and Petruchio. And a lot of situations which are mentioned in plot of the play are projected on their own characters and today private life in surprising and witty way. This peculiarity gives particular charm to every situation that happens both on stage and in life.

Music by Cole Porter is so tuneful and it is easy to remember, few melodies of this performance already became classic, in this music lyricism is combined with humor.