Kiss Me, Kate (Revised)

The story... It's the opening night of a musical version of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. The cast of the play is on stage and receiving final instructions from Fred Graham, the director. A play-within-a-play unfolds, where each of the four main cast members' on-stage performance is complicated by what is happening in his or her off-stage life. Fred takes the roles of director and male lead, Petruchio. His ex-wife Lilli, now a movie star with a reputation for being difficult to work with, plays Katharine, the Shrew. Fred's current love interest, Lois, plays the role of Bianca -- and the other man in Lois' life, Bill, plays the role of Lucentio. Before the curtain rises on The Shrew, we find out that Bill has a gambling problem ...and that he signed an IOU for a gambling debt in Fred's name. Two thugs show up at the theatre to make it clear that Bill will have to make good on the IOU, but they confront Fred instead. Songs from Kiss Me Kate include Wunderbar, Too Darn Hot and Another Opening Another Show.