Kiss Me Kate is a Tony Award winning Broadway show within a show, which has the comedy to match Cole Porter’s wonderful score, which the Vero Beach Theatre Guild will stage from March 13 – 30. The romantic sparks are flying when Fred Graham (Anthony Aruffo) puts on a musical version of William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew starring his ex-wife Lilli Vanessi (Roberta Rose). Adding complication is fellow actor Bill (Jay Wiggins) who tangles with two gangsters (Nicholas Keeler and Robin Ecklord Spalin), all while romancing actress Lois Lane (Carolyn W. Toohey). The show must go on, and this one does, but those men in tights singing “Brush up Your Shakespeare” who look like gangsters? They are gangsters! MORE…
