Evening star., 1950-08-20
Kiss Me, Rates Cast
Was Excited Also
Record-Shottering Musical Gave Actors
A Highly Nervous First Night
By Jay Cormody

two story including the story Of
kiss Me- Kaes date with record-breakng number OF WASH
ngtonians at the Watergate.
reviews has heard side Of this
tale exciting to be in the amphheater the bssedy
rainless nights of the last week.
Well it was Just exciting the performers side look
and realizing that the Lincoln Memorial sort of
back wall of eaer hearing ones voice in the haowed
atmosphere of the Potomac and playing to audiences vast
night
This is something your life the
kiss Me- Kate will remember it deeply and in ever many
details.
Memorial Cove Kote q Feeling of Awe
Talk McCann plays aluringly the
sensational showS Arst huge contemporary
musicaand find that Washington more exciting to the
than the to Washington At least it tie
between them, equally exciting both
Miss McCann dramatic spirited girl of stage as well as
had thought she had passed sageght
Monday singing Kate time
now and in a great many settings
and meanngful above the river
1T gaze and I'm all the others the feeling
stadium before in pittsburgh but it was nothing like this Here
all of sudden in the middle Of history An emotion
badly"
The happy to read the review. and find out how
had done. "splendidly." the reviewers agreed
That Treoeherous Floor Worried Dancers
dancers you further look behind the
Of such sensational opening the most worried per-
formers In the huge company.
They not only were they suddenly
atmosphere and playing to makers of modern history but they
also had the most rcachous stage floor Of them had
Mark Pa who corkng dancer under conceivable
for this predicament Of last Monday night
Watergate shell simply built with
the idea that would be danced certainly
bacy such tempos Hanya Holm prescbes for kiss
Me, Kate"
good basicaly but the pedously slick surface
which later corrected left Pa and his dancing colleagues
including the fragile lovely the choruseeng that two
inevitable of they would dis
themselves with bad performance the other that they
might break neck. or at least leg.
AudbIity Extends to Stonding Room
the singers had notion how we'll badly they
doing and delighted than the vocaists to
read how well they had done
the whole getting the backstage side of the story from
performers we'll these gathers there
such worriedover performance last Monday nights Need
essy although is fattering know that the
local atmosphere has this effect visiting stage
NO. the customers that the performance
dialogue passages audible the
of the 6000seat bowl back to the standngroo level
moved the first last
between the first and second acts testify that he heard the
latter mite better. n a7lS'f'E
Hosptoble Police Distribute Programs
McCann get back her much too late thinks the
story will tell her grandchildren e has two small children
right is the about Washngtons policemen.
One of their deeds opening night convinced her that this
be the most hosabe city in the world The act in question
that of the policemen who rowed from to
the nonpaying opening to distribute
of Kiss Me, Kate"
THAT" she says, "is memorable detail Of Of the most
memorable occasions I've ever known"
emotional producers of Kiss Kate" their
fer Washington very well be that it is
breaking boxoce record for entertainment here