Kiss Me Kate April 23, 2009

The Sunnyvale Community Players are putting on a production of Kiss Me Kate at the Sunnyvale Community Theater. Come support your local community actors! The Show runs Thursday-Saturday night + a Sunday matinee until May 10th. Come out and show your support!

Tickets are ~$20 and available here: http://www.sunnyvaleplayers.org/component/page,shop.browse/category_id,19/option,com_virtuemart/Itemid,101/
General Admission only. You call also call the Box Office: (408)733-6611

The theater is at 500 East Remington Ave, in Sunnyvale, CA.

"Kiss Me, Kate" is a loosely plotted scenario about the out-of-town tryout of a musical version of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew," directed by and starring an Orson Wellesian ham named Fred Graham alongside his ex-wife Lili Vanessi. Cole Porter confined himself to the sweeping emotions of the leading characters. Banking on the convention of two lovers "who can't live with each other and can't live without each other," Porter brilliantly captured the self-delusion and overwrought masochism of romantic egotism. Porter's renderings of the outsized, melodramatic personalities of Fred and Lili were the most truthful things he ever wrote (they were also perfectly embodied by Alfred Drake and Patricia Morison). Thrown together in the out-of-town tryout, Fred and Lili discover the love that binds their considerable egos together, even though Lili is engaged to marry a powerful senator and Fred is involved in a dalliance with a sexy young thing in the show. They realize, much like Kate and Petruchio in the original play, that they are bound to each other.

Official Website: http://www.sunnyvaleplayers.org/content/view/120/101/