Kiss Me, Kate was a comeback and a personal triumph for Cole Porter. After several successful musicals in the 1930s, notably Anything Goes, he experienced a terrible accident in 1937 which left him in continuous pain. Following the accident he continued to write songs and musicals but with limited success, and some thought he was past his prime. Kiss Me, Kate was in fact his biggest hit, receiving five Tony awards in 1949 (and again in its revival in 2000), and the only Cole Porter musical to have more than 1,000 performances on Broadway.
KissMe, Kate is a stage musical by Samuel and Bella Spewack (book) and Cole Porter (music and lyrics) that ran for 1,077 performances and was first performed in New York on December 30, 1948.
KissMe, Kate was a comeback and a personal triumph for Cole Porter.
KissMe, Kate was in fact his biggest hit, receiving five Tony awards in 1949 (and again in its revival in 2000), and the only Cole Portermusical to have more than 1,000 performances on Broadway.
KISSME, KATEplayed for 1,077 performances on Broadway at the New Century Theatre and for 501 performances in London at the Coliseum Theatre.
KISSME, KATE was revived in 1999 at the Martin Beck Theatre on Broadway, where it played for 881 performances starring Brian Stokes Mitchell and Marin Mazzie, and at the Victoria Palace Theatre in London, where it played for about 300 performances starring Brent Barrett and Marin Mazzie.
KISSME, KATE was originally produced in 1948 and has been considered one of Broadway's treasures.
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