Kiss Me Kate with Brent Barrett: DVD Cover

    Kiss Me Kate
    a.k.a. Kiss Me, Kate Director: Michael Blakemore, Chris Hunt Cast: Brent Barrett, Rachel York, Nancy Anderson

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    • DVD Release Date: 05/13/2003
    • Rating: Not Rated
    • Sales Rank: 28,651

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    Side #1 --
    1. Main Title; Another Op'nin', Another Show [13:38]
    2. Why Can't You Behave? [7:05]
    3. Wunderbar [7:25]
    4. So in Love [5:47]
    5. We Open in Venice [4:06]
    6. Tom, Dick or Harry [6:48]
    7. I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua [5:15]
    8. I Hate Men [7:07]
    9. Were Thine That Special Face [10:52]
    10. Cantiamo d'Amore (We Sing of Love) [3:49]
    11. Kiss Me, Kate [5:46]
    12. Too Darn Hot [18:23]
    13. Where Is the Life That Late I Led? [9:54]
    14. Always True to You in My Fashion [9:18]
    15. From This Moment On [4:28]
    16. Bianca [7:40]
    17. So in Love (Reprise) [2:53]
    18. Brush Up Your Shakespeare [4:59]
    19. Pavane [2:51]
    20. I Am Ashamed That Women Are So Simple [2:00]
    21. Kiss Me, Kate (Finale) [:49]
    22. End Credits [:57]

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    One of the biggest hits of the 1948-1949 Broadway season, the classic Cole Porter musical Kiss Me, Kate was triumphantly revived in 2000, running over 881 performances in New York and winning a Tony Award in the process. This faithful-to-its-source TV production of the "new" Kiss Me, Kate was taped during several live performances at London's Victoria Palace. The story concerns the efforts by an egocentric but likable actor, Fred Graham (Brent Barrett), to stage a musical version of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. Hoping to boost the show's box-office value, Graham has cast his temperamental ex-wife, film star Lilli Vanessi (Rachel York), in the role of the shrewish Katharine. As the production unfolds during a tryout in Baltimore, Fred and Lilli discover that they can't live with each other and can't live without each other -- just like Petruchio and Kate in Taming of the Shrew. Other ingredients in this heady blend of modern showbiz savvy and classic Elizabethan theater are the play's second leads, chronic gambler Bill Calhoun (Michael Berresse); the incurably flirtatious Lois Lane (Nancy Anderson); Lilli's current fiancé, the pompous Harrison Howell (Nicolas Colicos), a boring Republican millionaire in the original play, here rewritten as a lampoon of General Douglas MacArthur; and a brace of Runyonesque gangsters (Jack Chissick, Teddy Kempner) who refuse to leave the theater until they can collect a 75,000-dollar gambling debt. All of the great Cole Porter songs are performed intact and con brio: "Another Opening, Another Show," "So in Love," "Faithful in My Fashion," "I Hate Men," "Tom, Dick and Harry," "Too Darn Hot," "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" "Why Can't You Behave?" and so on. As a bonus, Porter's "From This Moment On," not written for the 1948 theatrical version of Kiss Me, Kate, but performed in the 1954 movie version, is herein revived to give poor old Harrison Howell something to do besides get laughs. Michael Blakemore, who adapted and staged the 2000 revival, also oversees this irresistible TV version, which first aired in the U.S. courtesy of PBS. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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    Kiss Me Kateby Anonymous

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    February 06, 2007: This performance of Kiss Me, Kate is absolutely amazing. I'm just sad that they don't have a soundtrack. I have the 1999 Broadway cast soundtrack on my iPod, but Rachel York and Brent Barret certainly give Marin Mazzie and Brian Mitchell a run for their money. AMAZING PRODUCTION!

    Kiss Me Kateby Anonymous

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    February 27, 2005: This is soooooooo amazing. Lead by the very handsome Brent Barrett and the gorgeous Rachel york, this is the funniest, and best musical I've seen recentely. I saw only a bit of it on PBS in October. I saw Rachel doing her 'I hate men sequence' up till this point, the only other version of Kiss me kate I'd seen was the 1953 movie version. (i'd listened to the Patricia Morison/Alfred Drake version, but it's different when you actually see the play) Now, it must be stated, Kathryn Grayson's 'I hate men' is a product of the production code policy, so it was a very clean, innocent version. Suddenly I see Rachel grabbing herself, screaming about, and stimulating a birth scene in detail, all the while, her curls are bouncing everywhere. I didn't really like it at first, but i had to admit the girl had extrordinary vocal range, but it seemed a bit vulgar compared to Ms. Grayson. I turned the TV off for a while, but came back a bit later and saw the first 3/4 of the second act. (to the end of 'from this moment on scene') It then started growing on me, I decided to rent the DVD. WOW!!!!!!!! seeing it from the beginning was some thing else. I fell in Love! I've now bought the DVD, and seen it about 3,000 times. (that's barely an exaggeration) Brent and Rachel have such chemisrty, and what talent!!!!!!!!!!! They are truly two of the most versatile, and talented performers today in theater, and trust me, I've seen ALOT of theater. They are certainly the top. Rachel's range is so unbelievable, her emotion, her comedic timing as well as dramatic, she's incredible. Brent does the impossible, make Fred a true overbearing thetaer ham, and yet make him so incredibly likable. Don't waste anymore time, order it now!!!!!!


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