Kiss Me Kate 2019 Broadway Cast Recording CD Album

Roundabout Theatre Company's current hit production of Cole Porter's musical comedy Kiss Me, Kate is out now as a cast album, ready to download or stream. Scott Ellis directs, Warren Carlyle handles the choreography, and Paul Gemignani is music director. The book comes from Sam and Bella Spewack, with music and lyrics by Cole Porter.

Tony Award winner Kelli O'Hara plays Kate/Lilli Vanessi. Tony Award nominee Will Chase takes the role of Petruchio/Fred Graham, and Corbin Bleu appears as Lucentio/Bill Calhoun. Terence Archie plays Harrison Howell, Mel Johnson Jr. is Harry Trevor/Baptista, James T. Lane is Paul, Stephanie Styles plays Lois Lane/Bianca, Adrienne Walker is Hattie, Lance Coadie Williams plays Gangster (Second Man) and John Pankow plays Gangster (First Man).

Also in the company: Darius Barnes, Preston Truman Boyd, Will Burton, Derrick Cobey, Jesmille Darbouze, Rick Faugno, Haley Fish, Tanya Haglund, Erica Mansfield, Marissa McGowan, Sarah Meahl, Justin Prescott, Christine Cornish Smith, Sherisse Springer, Sam Strasfeld and Travis Waldschmidt.

Among Broadway's musical comedy masterpieces, Kiss Me, Kate carries a particular shine: it won the first-ever Tony Award for Best Musical. Onstage romance and backstage
passion share the evening with comedy high and low, a dash of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, and a stylish, sexy, sophisticated songbook that runs from "Too Darn Hot" to "So In Love" and "Always True To You In My Fashion." Roundabout brings it all back with a brand-new Kiss Me, Kate.

The New York Times raves that "Kelli O'Hara is sublime. She sings so gorgeously it almost melts the theater." In the Washington Post's view the show is unmissable, with Scott Ellis' first-class Broadway revival raising Kiss Me, Kate's sparkle quotient to incandescence. The Observer notes that this blissfully-staged Roundabout revival packs a delightful comic punch.

This is Roundabout's 24th cast album recording, counted from the launch of the musical theatre program with She Loves Me in 1993. Kurt Deutsch and Lawrence Manchester produced the album.

Major support came from Susan and Ed Forst, Leni and Peter May, Katheryn Patterson and Tom Kempner, and Diane and Tom Tuft. Additional support was provided by The Howard Gilman Foundation, Harry E. Gould Jr., Abby F. Kohnstamm, The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation, Nancy and Jay Nichols, and The Cole Porter Estate.