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About The Show ...
"KISS ME, KATE is gay, beautiful, tuneful and plenty
more." -- NEW YORK WORLD TELEGRAM -- William
Hawkins.
"All you can say for KISS ME, KATE is that it is terri-
bly enjoyable." -- NEW YORK TIMES -- Brooks Atkinson.
"Sprightliest, handsomest and most tuneful musical
imaginable. In KISS ME, KATE Mr. Porter has provided
his loveliest and most exuberant score, with lyrics to
match." -- DAILY NEWS -- John Chapman.
"Solidly enjoyable, with one hummable tune after
another. In every department KATE is a superlative
show. It's the sort of score that sends an audience out
of the theatre singing." -- VARIETY -- Hobe.
Ever since Kiss Me, Kate opened on Broadway in 1948
with Alfred Drake and Patricia Morison and then was
made into a stunning motion picture in 1953 with
Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, and Ann Miller, it has
known unwavering popularity. Why not? It has every-
thing -- music, comedy, and even Shakespeare.
Kiss Me, Kate opens with the Baltimore opening of a
revival of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. The
cast of the revival is on stage and receiving final in-
structions. In the cast with producer-actor Fred Graham
are his former wife Lilli, Lois, a singer in whom he is
interested, and Bill Calhoun who is Lois' interest. The
irresponsible Bill informs Lois that he has signed
The Director .Graham's name to a $10,000 IOU for gambling debts.
She begs him to reform. Graham and Lilli patch up
their differences as they reminisce nostalgically about
other shows in which they have appeared together.
Graham sends a bouquet to Lois which is delivered in
error to Lilli. As The Taming of the Shrew gets under
way Lois as Bianca and Bill as Lucentio discuss Bianca's
inability to marry until her older sister has been af-
fianced. Graham as Petruchio arrives in search of a rich
wife and although Katharine, played by Lilli, states her
inalterable opposition to males, Petruchio agrees to
marry her, even though she is not the wife of whom he
has dreamed. Lilli discovers that her bouquet was in-
tended for Lois, and threatens to leave the show. Her
departure is prevented by two gangsters who have come
to collect the IOU with Graham's signature. As the
first act ends she is raging, both in character and in
reality.
Petruchio, although just married to Katharine and
beginning his tempestuous wedded life, begins to yearn
for his life as a single man. Because of a sudden change
in gang administration, the gangsters tear up the now
worthless IOU, and Lilli prepares to walk out on the
show as Graham muses on his love for her. The qanq-
sters pause to pay a decidedly unusual tribute to Shake-
speare. As the revival comes to a close Lilli unexpectedly
returns and in Katharine's words expresses her intention
of returning to Graham. They are reunited and Lois
and Bill reach their own understanding.
.. Lewis FulksAfter graduating from ACC in 1948, Lewis Fulks studied a year at
the University of Southern California under the guidance of William
C. deMille. On the completion of the Master's degree in drama, Fulks
returned to the campus in 1949 as a member of the faculty in the
Department of Speech and as designer for the ACC theatre. From
1949 to 1958 he designed all of the major dramatic and operatic pro-
ductions and directed several of the major productions. A notable
achievement was his direction of the 50th anniversary pageant A City
on A Hill.
From 1958 to 1961 he was Director of Theatre Arts at Pepperdine
College while he was studying toward a doctoral degree at the Univer-
sity of Southern California. At USC he studied under the noted theatre
historian Dr. James H. Butler and the imminent film critic of The Satur-
day Review, Arthur Knight. While on the faculty of Pepperdine College,
he directed and designed The King and I, The Physician in Spite of
Himself, The Wizard of Oz, Outward Bound, and South Pacific.
In 1961, Fulks returned to ACC as Director of Theatre Arts and has
directed and designed The King and I, Dial 'M' for Murder, Carousel,
The Lark, The Music Man, The Miracle Worker, My Fair Lady, J. B.,
Medea, and Camelot at the college and Oklahoma! and South Pacific
for the Abilene Philharmonic Association. Kiss Me, 'Kate is his eighty-
fifth major production.
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