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List Price: $15.98 | | Label: Relativity
Salesrank: 557631
Released: July 22, 2008 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Kiss Me Kate (1987 London Cast) Track Listing:
1. Overture
2. Another Op'nin', Another Show - Earlene Bentley
3. Why Can't You Behave? - Tim Flavin, Fiona Hendley
4. Wunderbar - Nichola McAuliffe
5. So in Love Am I - Nichola McAuliffe
6. We Open in Venice - Tim Flavin, Fiona Hendley, , Nichola McAuliffe
7. Tom, Dick or Harry - Tim Flavin, Fiona Hendley, Peter Ledbury,
8. I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua
9. I Hate Men - Nichola McAuliffe
10. Were Thine That Special Face
11. Too Darn Hot
12. Where Is the Life That Late I Led?
13. Always True to You in My Fashion
14. Bianca - Tim Flavin,
15. So in Love Am I
16. Brush Up Your Shakespeare
17. Women Are So Simple - Nichola McAuliffe
18. Finale
Kiss Me Kate (1987 London Cast) Reviews:
Where Is My Purchase 
2007-01-19 - I have had several back-order messages for a product that was supposed to be a Christmas Gift. No one seems to know much about it.
The worst album of KATE to date!
2004-05-24 - The disk starts off promisingly with a well-played Overture, but once the singing commences we're in trouble. They force American accents and oversing the roles. At least they can sing...the leading man, Paul Jones cannot. It is painful to listen to him warble through the Porter classics written for a legitimate voice. His voice has no top end and no bottem end, and the middle range is pretty shakey. Is it any wonder his Act II solo reprise of "So in Love" was left out? Stick with Alfred Drake and the original cast.
Look elsewhere for Kiss Me Kate 
2003-07-03 - Having performed "Kate" twice I love the music - but not as it's performed here. The singers camp it up too much, and the accents they use in a vain attempt to sound American are horrible; twangy country, slurred urban, downright silly. While the recording does include more songs than most other "Kate" soundtracks, and therefore more Porter lyrics, the singing really gets in the way of enjoying the show.
There are many other "Kate" soundtracks - a quick searh nets 24 hits - look for one of the other ones.
Still looking for a good overall version of KMK 
2003-02-25 - My title says it all. I have yet to find a version of Kiss Me Kate that I like in terms of orchestrations, sound fidelity, and singing ability.
The original '49 version, IMHO, is too old making the orchestra and cast sound boxy and somewhat unintelligiable. Original cast recordings of the '40s generally sound that way and no amount of digital remastering would improve them much (BTW, Brigadoon might be the exception to that rule.)
The later '59 studio version has HiFi stereo quality but while the orchestra sounds much better, the original actors sound 10 years older (Lisa Kirk's alto, in particular, has grown even huskier, and therefore unbearable for me to listen to, compared to her younger, more pleasant, late 40s-style crooning counterpart).
The recent Broadway revival has fine Tony-winning orchestrations, Stokes Mitchell and Mazzie do a fine job, but Spangler and Berresse are uninspiring as singers and song interpreters.
Finally, I went and bought this recording (1987 London Revival) on the strength of Fiona Hadleys pussycat-sexy version of "Why Can't You Behave."
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I'm still looking for a good overall recording of Kiss Me Kate. Hadley sounded fine fine for me, although some would object to the English accent and her often fruity tone production. (I accept those elements as part of her sex appeal!) The new orchestrations, however, sound VERY bland and unbroadwaylike. They seem to evaporate at times, much like common elevator music. Furthermore, Paul Jones can hardly sing and Nichola McAuliffe's voice is just as stuffy as Patricia Morrison's, who was in the '49 Broadway and '59 studio versions.
Sigh. I guess the search continues...
good recording 
2001-06-01 - I bought this recording when it first came out approximately 10 years ago.Being a big fan of the movie, I was dissapointed in the original Broadway cast recording(have since changed my opinion of that). I found the new musical arrangements to really add a great deal to the show, and the vocal performances are very good, even for British singers. I recomend you add this cast recording to your collection
