As I understand it, the last version of "Kiss Me Kate" to hit Broadway had eliminated the spanking scene. That's ridiculous--it's not even "Kiss Me Kate" without that scene, as far as I'm concerned.
Here are a few photos from other productions or rehearsals that got it right!
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Love Kiss me Kate photos her expression while getting spanked is classic.I love all your finds .Thanks
Jim
Jimc -- Some good expressions and reactuiobs here. Hopefully they all are KMK photos. I've been fooled before....
LOVE both the expressions on the last one...
smuccatelli -- I love her expression. His is almost a little too--I don't know--almost sadistic for me....
I'd imagine this will be the way it is going forward (until we get rid of "cancel culture" anyway) and certainly from a post-feminist standpoint. Interestingly, in Shakespeare's play "The Taming of the Shrew", Petrucchio tamed Kate with kindness, not a spanking...
Some Broadway producers got the idea that it would be more "interesting" to show her being spanked. And frankly, it kinda is... ;-p
smuccatelli -- I don't think the term "cancel culture" even existed when they put that version on the stage, so it may have had more to do anti-abuse and/or feminism......
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