Kiss Me Kate
The Musical Kiss Me Kate is the only (popular) stage play I know that features an on-stage spanking in its script.
Here is more information on the play from Wikipedia: Kiss Me, Kate is a musical with a book by Samuel and Bella Spewack and music and lyrics by Cole Porter. It is structured as a play within a play, where the interior play is a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Kiss Me, Kate was a comeback and a personal triumph for Cole Porter. After several successful musicals in the 1930s, notably Anything Goes, Du Barry Was a Lady, and Panama Hattie, he experienced an equestrian accident in 1937 that left him in constant pain. Following the accident, he continued to write songs and musicals but with limited success, and some thought he was past his prime. Kiss Me, Kate was a response to Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! and other integrated musicals, and it proved to be his biggest hit and the only one of his shows to run for more than 1,000 performances on Broadway.[1] It won the first Tony Award presented for Best Musical, in 1949. ( More information )
It dates back to December 1948. Since the it has been played all over the world - so we've got a lot of material with stage spankings to collect.
1. Posters, Covers, Newspaper Articles and Publicity Stills
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2. Pictures from commercial stage productions
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3. Pictures from (what I consider) non-commercial (amateur) productions or rehearsals
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4. Videos
1 - a breath-taking Rachel York as Kate and a good spanking too
2 - School theatre - shot from a distance
3 - black and white, Alfred Drake - Patricia Morison
4 - Howard Keel spanks Kathryn Grayson in the 1953 movie
5 - Arts Alliance 2004
6 - starts at ~ 4.30, shot from a distance
7 - Carolee Carmello
8 - it is Rachel York again, this time shot from the audience
9 - shot from the audience, Marin Mazzie
10 - a painful school play rehearsal
11 - Rachel York again in High quality
12 - 1953 movie again, HQ download ( alt. DL )
13 - Dutch Stage Production West Brabant (alt. DL)
14 - Another stage production with Alysa Marsiella
15 - Komische Oper Berlin May 2008 (alt DL)
16 - Trinity High School
17 - Magruder High School
18 - SAOS 2007
19 - Italian Television "Amici Live" 27.11 - Alice e Angelo (at 3:30)
20 - Italian Television Angelo e Alice (again)
21 - Taming of the Shrew, Utah Shakespearean Festival 2007
22 - Czech group "Spiewajace Szynszyle"
23 - TVT Becky Johnson
24 - Unknown production
25 - Polish production
Do you know of a scene or picture that is not listed here? Don't be shy and write me :)
Here is more information on the play from Wikipedia: Kiss Me, Kate is a musical with a book by Samuel and Bella Spewack and music and lyrics by Cole Porter. It is structured as a play within a play, where the interior play is a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Kiss Me, Kate was a comeback and a personal triumph for Cole Porter. After several successful musicals in the 1930s, notably Anything Goes, Du Barry Was a Lady, and Panama Hattie, he experienced an equestrian accident in 1937 that left him in constant pain. Following the accident, he continued to write songs and musicals but with limited success, and some thought he was past his prime. Kiss Me, Kate was a response to Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! and other integrated musicals, and it proved to be his biggest hit and the only one of his shows to run for more than 1,000 performances on Broadway.[1] It won the first Tony Award presented for Best Musical, in 1949. ( More information )
It dates back to December 1948. Since the it has been played all over the world - so we've got a lot of material with stage spankings to collect.
1. Posters, Covers, Newspaper Articles and Publicity Stills
click here for this collection
2. Pictures from commercial stage productions
click here for this collection
3. Pictures from (what I consider) non-commercial (amateur) productions or rehearsals
click here for this collection
4. Videos
1 - a breath-taking Rachel York as Kate and a good spanking too
2 - School theatre - shot from a distance
3 - black and white, Alfred Drake - Patricia Morison
4 - Howard Keel spanks Kathryn Grayson in the 1953 movie
5 - Arts Alliance 2004
6 - starts at ~ 4.30, shot from a distance
7 - Carolee Carmello
8 - it is Rachel York again, this time shot from the audience
9 - shot from the audience, Marin Mazzie
10 - a painful school play rehearsal
11 - Rachel York again in High quality
12 - 1953 movie again, HQ download ( alt. DL )
13 - Dutch Stage Production West Brabant (alt. DL)
14 - Another stage production with Alysa Marsiella
15 - Komische Oper Berlin May 2008 (alt DL)
16 - Trinity High School
17 - Magruder High School
18 - SAOS 2007
19 - Italian Television "Amici Live" 27.11 - Alice e Angelo (at 3:30)
20 - Italian Television Angelo e Alice (again)
21 - Taming of the Shrew, Utah Shakespearean Festival 2007
22 - Czech group "Spiewajace Szynszyle"
23 - TVT Becky Johnson
24 - Unknown production
25 - Polish production
Do you know of a scene or picture that is not listed here? Don't be shy and write me :)