Kiss Me, Kate

Staff

... Conductor	Pembroke Davenport
... Producer	Mitchell Ayres

Cast

... Fred Graham (Petruchio)	Alfred Drake (i)
... Harry Trevor (Baptista)	Thomas Hoier
... Lois Lane (Bianca)	Lisa Kirk
... Ralph (Stage Manager)	Don Mayo (i)
... Lilli Vanessi (Katharine)	Patricia Morison
... Hattie	Annabelle Hill
... Paul	Lorenzo Fuller
... Bill Calhoun (Lucentio)	Harold Lang
... First Man	Harry Clark (iii)
... Second Man	Jack Diamond
... Stage Doorman	Bill Lilling
... Harrison Howell	Denis Green
... Gremio (First Suitor)	Edwin Clay
... Hortensio (Second Suitor)	Charles Wood
... Haberdasher	John Castello
... 'Were Thine That Special Face' Dancer	Shirley Eckl
... Specialty Dancers	Fred Davis Eddie Sledge
... Singing Ensemble	Tom Bole George Cassidy Peggy Ferris Herb Fields Florence Gault Noel Gordon Gay Laurence Allan Lowell Ethel Madsen Helen Rice Stan Rose Matilda Strazza Charles Wood
... Dancing Ensemble	Mark Breaux John Castello Ann Dunbar Victor Duntiere Shirley Eckl Jean Houloose Paul Olson Ingrid Secretan Gisella Svetlik Jean Tachau Glen Tetley Rudy Tone

Tracks

For this recording, the show's entr'acte was recorded in place of the overture. On all issues of the recording that we know of, it has been placed as the first act and listed as the overture.

The 1998 CD reissue added a bonus track of the show's actual overture, from a record that Columbia issued in 1958 with the title Curtain Going Up. This was a collection of Broadway overtures conducted by Lehman Engel. That recording was issued on CD with the title Another Openin', Another Show, with two additional tracks (the Li'l Abner and Goldilocks overtures) taken from Columbia cast recordings conducted by Engel.