Cole Porter - Kiss Me, Kate (1999 Broadway Revival Cast)
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Artist: Cole PorterBrand: KiSS
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 2000-01-25
Music Label: Drg
Soundtracks:
- Another Op'nin', Another Show - Hattie & the Company
- Why Can't You Behave?
- Wunderbar
- So in Love
- We Open in Venice
- Tom, Dick, or Harry
- I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua
- I Hate Men
- Were Thine That Special Face
- Cantiamo d'Amore
- Kiss Me, Kate
- Too Darn Hot
- Where Is the Life That Late I Led?
- Always True to You (In My Fashion)
- Bianca
- So in Love (Reprise)
- Brush up Your Shakespeare
- Pavane
- I Am Ashamed That Women Are So Simple
- Kiss Me, Kate (Finale)
Free Music Notes for Kiss Me, Kate (1999 Broadway Revival Cast)
Free Music Review: A cheesy 90's revival.
Hit: 2 Stars
This revival did not seek to preserve Kiss Me Kate as a museum piece, which in itself is not a terrible goal. However, in the process of 'modernizing' the score, Paul Gemignani has instead given us breezy, breathtaking tempos and jazz-inflected arrangements that turn this wonderful score into a cheesey musical revue. How sad, because this score in its original form was a landmark of American musical theatre. In fact this show has never received a decent revival, and the movie version of the 50's is so watered down and sanitized that it barely resembles the original show. If you can find it, I recommend the John McGlinn studio recording of the early 90's on EMI (now sadly out of print, but occasionally available on Ebay) which faithfully reproduces Robert Russell Bennett's original orchestrations and gives the listener a much better souvenir of Porter's masterpiece.
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This terrific new recording of Cole Porter's greatest show grabs you from the beginning: shimmering strings lead straight into "Another Op'nin', Another Show" before the orchestra takes over. Then it's on to many of Porter's best-loved melodies and wittiest lyrics, including "Wunderbar," "So in Love," "Always True to You (In My Fashion)," and "Why Can't You Behave?" Art imitates life in this story of a troupe's performance of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, as the stars quarrel as much offstage as they do onstage, and Porter's score reflects this with both contemporary '40s songs ("Too Darn Hot") and Bard-inspired stage songs ("I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua"). Similarly, Don Sebesky's marvelous new orchestrations alternate a jazzy band with Elizabethan-period drums and recorders. Brian Stokes Mitchell and Marin Mazzie (both alums of Ragtime) are in glorious voice as the feuding stars, while Amy Spanger and Michael Berresse shine as the secondary couple. Surprisingly, when this production debuted on Broadway in the fall of 1999, it was the show's first-ever major revival. The original 1948 cast recording is still great listening, but this is a Kiss Me, Kate for the new century. --David HoriuchiBroadway & Vocalists Music CDs
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