Wagon Wheel Center for the Arts presents Kiss Me, Kate by Bella and Samuel Spewack, with music by Cole Porter. This classic 1948 musical tells the story of divorcees, Fred Graham and Lilli Vanessi, as they come together to put on a musical adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew.
Kiss Me, Kate was directed by Andy Robinson and Ben Dicke at Wagon Wheel Center for the Arts. All design, fabrication, and paperwork tracking was done by myself as the sole props designer and fabricator. Any furniture or set dressing pieces were reallocated to the scenic department.
Wagon Wheel Center for the Arts is an 850-seater, in-the-round theater with audience members that are as close as two feet away from the stage, so all technical elements must have a higher level of plausibility than something typically seen from fifty feet away on a proscenium stage.
This show was not fabrication-heavy, so the majority of my projects focused on pulling together a cohesive palette of props. The biggest challenge for this show was going seamlessly between eras, and establishing the world of the show within the show. All paper props for this show needed to be ripped apart, so I created multiple laminated copies. I repaired and refinished the box for the flowers, created envelopes, made a mop from yarn and a wooden dowel, and made a faux playbill. Everything else was sourced from WWCA prop storage.
Wagon Wheel Center for the Arts Professional Theatre
Directors: Ben Dicke and Andy Robinson
Choreographer: Michael Pacholski
Costume Designer: Alaina Moore
Set Designer: Mike Higgins
Lighting Designer: Patrick Chan
Wigs/Make-Up Designer: Jen Dow
Props Designer: Jordan Ingersoll
Photography: Scott Michaels
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