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Kiss Me, Kate is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and a book by Bella and Samuel Spewack.The story involves the production of a musical version of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and the conflict on and off-stage between Fred Graham, the show's director, producer, and star, and his leading lady, his ex-wife Lilli Vanessi.
"Always True to You in My Fashion" is a 1948 show tune by Cole Porter, written for the musical Kiss Me, Kate. [1] It is based on Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae, a similarly ironic poem by the English Decadent poet Ernest Dowson (1867–1900), which has the refrain 'I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion,' and which was probably inspired by Dowson's lifelong friend ...
Kiss Me Kate is a 1953 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film adaptation of the 1948 Broadway musical of the same name. [notes 1]Inspired by William Shakespeare's play 'The Taming of the Shrew', it tells the tale of formerly married musical theater actors Fred Graham and Lilli Vanessi, brought together to star opposite one another in the roles of Petruchio and Katherine in a Broadway musical version of ...
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"Another Op'nin', Another Show" is the opening number of Cole Porter's 1948 musical Kiss Me, Kate.. Sung by a band of players performing a musical adaption of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, the song has become regarded as a show business anthem on a level with "That's Entertainment!" (from The Band Wagon) and "There's No Business Like Show Business" (from Annie Get Your Gun).
From my research, I found out that it was named after the Broadway musical "Kiss Me Kate" which opened in 1948. Avid bakers online say they swear by this cake and have been making it for decades.
"Why Can't You Behave?" is a 1948 popular song written by Cole Porter, for his musical Kiss Me, Kate, where it was introduced by Lisa Kirk. The character Lois Lane sings it to her boyfriend Bill, who had just missed rehearsal because he was gambling and told her he signed a $10,000 IOU in the name of the director of the show.
Perhaps the best-known example of this is Frank Sinatra's Kiss Me, Kate studio album which is part of his four-album (four-show) project that also includes Finian's Rainbow (1947), South Pacific (1949), and Guys and Dolls (1950), and which he produced in 1963 to promote his fledgling label, Reprise Records; hence the project title being the ...