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Fri May 30, 2025, 08:31 PM May 30

Kiss me Kate on PBS 9:00 PM Eastern (With Ridely Adrian Dunbar, from where I recgonize him)

The original Broadway production of Cole Porter's 1948 classic Kiss Me, Kate ran for over 1,000 performances and went on to become one of the all-time classics of Broadway's "Golden Age" of musicals. A love letter to the theater blending Shakespeare with backstage romance, the show was the crowning achievement of Porter's celebrated career and featured a score brimming with enduring hits including "Another Op'nin, Another Show," "So in Love," "Too Darn Hot," "From This Moment On" and the comic masterpiece "Brush Up Your Shakespeare." The 2024 revival of Kiss Me, Kate at London's Barbican Theatre stars Tony-winner Stephanie J. Block (The Cher Show) and Irish star Adrian Dunbar (Line of Duty) as Porter's famously feuding couple. The Barbican revival was directed by Tony-winning director Bartlett Sher (Lincoln Center Theater's South Pacific, The King and I, My Fair Lady) .

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Kiss me Kate on PBS 9:00 PM Eastern (With Ridely Adrian Dunbar, from where I recgonize him) (Original Post) question everything May 30 OP
Another opening!!! elleng May 30 #1
After one and a half hour there was an intermission and then... restarting from the beginning question everything May 30 #2
I tried watching it on the PBS app. SleeplessinSoCal May 31 #3

elleng

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1. Another opening!!!
Fri May 30, 2025, 08:39 PM
May 30

question everything

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2. After one and a half hour there was an intermission and then... restarting from the beginning
Fri May 30, 2025, 10:30 PM
May 30

and after five minutes restarting again. What is going on?

SleeplessinSoCal

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3. I tried watching it on the PBS app.
Sat May 31, 2025, 05:14 PM
May 31

But the singing was just so subpar. I couldn't stick with it. I wish they'd have made it the story of an English theatre company. And adjusted the dialogue to their own colloquial style.

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