KISS ME KATE 1952 Revival?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/10/10 at 10:15am

I was looking the show up on ibdb and there's a revival listed in 1952 that played for only 8 performances at The Broadway Theatre. I had no idea the show came back only a few months after it's original closing. Does anyone have any info on this? I'm wondering why was it revived so soon.

[allofmylife]

Posted: 8/10/10 at 12:23pm

The 3d film of the movie came out in 1952. Could this be the premiere that has been mis-identified as a live performance? They often rented a Broadway house back then for premieres.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/10/10 at 12:30pm

IMDB lists that film as coming out in 1953, but the cast lists are different so it's not that. This production starred Holly Harris and Robert Wright.

[lvpblues]

Posted: 8/10/10 at 1:50pm

As per "The Oxford Companion to the American Musical," this was a tour brought to Broadway as a return engagement at popular prices and zero audience interest.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/10/10 at 2:06pm

Thanks! How odd that they would bring the show back to such an enormous house only a fee months after closing. I can't imagine interest would have been that great especially with no names to bring people back to it.

[nobodyhome]

Posted: 8/10/10 at 3:00pm

This was a pretty common thing to do back then. National tours of recent Broadway hits would come to Broadway after the tour was over, usually for limited engagements.