"Kiss Me Kate" Song List











 
Music and Lyrics by:
Cole Porter

Musical Numbers/Setting

Act One


Setting: Ford Theatre, Baltimore, June 1948

Scene One: The stage of Ford Theatre, Baltimore

  • "Another Op'nin' Another Show".........Hattie and the Company

    Scene Two: The Backstage Corridor

  • "Why Can't You Behave"....................Lois and Bill

    Scene Three: Fred and Lilli's Dressing Rooms

  • "Wunderbar"......................Fred and Lilli
  • "So In Love".........................Lilli

    Scene Four: Padua

  • "We Open In Venice"....Petruchio, Katharine, Bianca, Lucentio

    Scene Five: A Street in Padua (Piazza)

  • "Tom, Dick or Harry"......Bianca, Lucentio, Gremio, Hortensio
  • "I've Come to Wive It Wealthily In Padua" ........................Petruchio and the Men
  • "I Hate Men"........................Katharine
  • "Were Thine That Special Face"..... Petruchio

    Scene Six: The Backstage Corridor
    Scene Seven: Fred and Lilli's Dressing Rooms
    Scene Eight: A Country Road in Padua

  • "Cantiamo D'Amore.....................The Ensemble

    Scene Nine: The Church in Padua

  • "Kiss Me Kate".......Petruchio, Katharine, the Ensemble

    Intermission

    Act Two

    Setting: Ford's Theatre, Baltimore, Immediately following

    Scene One: The Theatre Alley

  • "Too Darn Hot"................Paul and the Ensemble

    Scene Two: Before the Curtain
    Scene Three: Petruchio's House

  • "Where Is the Life That Late I Led?.........Petruchio

    Scene Four: The Backstage Corridor

  • "Always True to You (In My Fashion)".........Lois and Bill

    Scene Five: Fred and Lilli's Dressing Rooms

  • "From This Moment On"............Harrison Howell and Lilli

    Scene Six: The Backstage Corridor

  • "Bianca"....................Bill and Ensemble
  • "So in Love" (Reprise)..................Fred

    Scene Seven: Before the Curtain

  • "Brush Up Your Shakespeare"........First Man and Second Man

    Scene Eight: Baptista's House, Padua

  • Pavane............Bianca, Lucentio, and the Ensemble
  • "I Am Ashamed That Women Are So Simple"..........Katharine
  • "Kiss Me Kate" (Finale)............The Company










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