Kiss Me Kate question

[dfwtheatreguy]

Kiss Me Kate question#1

Posted: 1/30/07 at 6:56pm

Is there any significance to the character Lois Lane? The show was written in 1953, so I assume "Superman" was in the public consciousness. It would be if a show today had a character named Paris Hilton, but wasn't the Paris we immediately associate with....

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[Mother's Younger Brother]

re: Kiss Me Kate question#2

Posted: 1/30/07 at 6:57pm

As much as I like this show, I'm ashamed to admit that I don't have an answer...but I've always wondered the same thing.

[Jon]

re: Kiss Me Kate question#2

Posted: 1/30/07 at 8:33pm

I've always assumed i was coincidence - that the book writers of KISS ME KATE were unaware of the Superman character.

[AJ1985]

re: Kiss Me Kate question#3

Posted: 1/30/07 at 9:06pm

I think KMK is older than 1953. Isn't it like from the 40s? But then again when was Superman invented?

[Jon]

re: Kiss Me Kate question#4

Posted: 1/30/07 at 9:16pm

Superman originated in the late 1930's.

[broadwaystar2b]

re: Kiss Me Kate question#5

Posted: 1/30/07 at 9:41pm

I think it was just a coincidence

Kiss Me, Kate was written in 1948

[jonartdesigns]

re: Kiss Me Kate question#6

Posted: 1/30/07 at 9:51pm

threadjack question; can anyone explain to me why the revival cd lists "always true to you..." as performed by bianca when in fact lois sings it backstage?

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[dfwtheatreguy]

re: Kiss Me Kate question#7

Posted: 1/30/07 at 9:58pm

Superman comics came out in 1933, the cartoon series was from 1940-1947, the TV show began in 1948 - I don't think it's a coincidence, I give Cole Porter and the Spewacks more credit, but I can't come up with a reason why they did it.

"The theatre is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life." - Arthur Miller

[lovesclassics]

re: Kiss Me Kate question#8

Posted: 1/30/07 at 10:07pm

It sounds like a stage name that a vaudeville hoofer would come up with if she wanted to be remembered on Broadway.

lc

[NCGuy]

re: Kiss Me Kate question#9

Posted: 1/30/07 at 10:24pm

dfwtheatreguy, some of your dates are a little off (the first comic book appearance was in ’38, the Fleischer cartoons were ’41-’43, and the TV show premiered in ’52), but you’re right about the comic book and the cartoons pre-dating Kiss Me Kate (as did the daily newspaper strip and the radio series).

[allofmylife]

re: Kiss Me Kate question#10

Posted: 1/30/07 at 11:30pm

It may have been just a coincidence. Comics didn't have the relevancy they now have in 1946-7 when KMK was written. Everyone knew who Superman was ("This is a job for.....Superman") but the smaller details would have been known by jids, not necessarily adults. The kids grew up with a memory of the comics they read and the intelligencia came to embrace comics several decades later.

May have just been a coincidence.

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