The Incomparable

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  Lions, Towers & Shields August 25, 2022 Kiss Me Kate

  58 He's Culturing Me

  Shelly Brisbin with David Almeida, Annette Wierstra and David J. Loehr

  The film version of Cole Porter’s show, which is based on Shakespeare’s “Taming of the Shrew” (got that?) landed in the middle of MGM’s big technicolor musical era, the 1950s. Howard Keel, Kathryn Grayson and Ann Miller are your stars, and a very young Bob Fosse is among the standouts in the cast. Movie censors got to Porter’s lyrics, which gives us some fun topics to cover. It’s also your host’s birthday show. Because it’s too darn hot to cover anything else.

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  The Incomparable Mothership March 20, 2021 Shakespeare Club: “Taming of the Shrew”

  558 A Product of Its Time

  Jason Snell with Philip Michaels, Shelly Brisbin, Moisés Chiullán and David J. Loehr

  Shakespeare Club returns! “The Taming of the Shrew” is a Shakespeare play that’s crying out to be adapted for modern audiences, which is why it keeps being adapted—with varying degrees of success. We discuss the play, the unpleasant Franco Zeffirelli 1967 film starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, the film and TV versions of Cole Porter’s “Kiss Me, Kate,” the teen rom-com “10 Things I Hate About You,” and even the 1980s TV adaptation on “Moonlighting,” which might be the best of the bunch? What we’re saying, Shakespeare, is that we’ve got some notes.