Pop Music School (Resources of Music)

June 1, 2008 | By Doug In Pop Music |

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Customer Review: I could ‘Kiss Me Kate’ all night
I had been searching for this version of Kiss Me Kate for ages and finally found it. A great version of the play(Taming of the Shrew) within a play this combines comedy, dancing, singing and a wonderful score by Cole Porter. It is one of MGM’s wonderful fifties musicals. Howard Keel as Fred/Petruchio is terrific & Kathryn Grayson(Lily/Kate) is no slouch either. Ann Miller & Tommy Rall as secondary leads have marvellous dance routines but the real highlight is the performance of ‘Brush up your Shakespeare’ by Keenan Wynn and James Whitmore as the gangsters sent to collect a debt from Fred. I have seen live performances of ‘Kate’ but this is the best ever.
Customer Review: Ann Miller’s legs - yum!
A great film, but Kathryn Grayson is upstaged by Ann Miller as a cheerful tarty dancer. Well worth it just to see her tap dancing on Howard Keel’s coffee table and showing off the kind of legs that models don’t have today; nice and chunky. Oh, and there’s a bit of singing in the film too.
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