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A big hit at Chichester in the summer — I gave it five stars — Kiss Me, Kate, starring the heavenly Hannah Waddingham opened this week at London's Old Vic.
The 1948 musical comedy builds a cheerfully farcical plot round Shakespeare's The Taming Of The Shrew, inserting Hollywood gags and Cole Porter showstoppers.
It also has Ms Waddingham — a bodice-burster built like Boudica — as Lilli Vanessi, a grumpy film star reduced to a rep production of Shrew The Musical in Baltimore.
Big hit: Hannah Waddingham in Kiss Me, Kate which opened this week at London's Old Vic
Her co-star in this codpiece epic is ex-husband Fred (Alex Bourne), whom she still loves. The burly Bourne looks like he could have stepped out of a silent-movie era Robin Hood.
Disaster unfolds, of course, but Fred flashes insistent smiles at his audience — even while giving Lilli's bottom a spanking.
Add two terrific mobsters (David Burt and Clive Rowe) and a touching denouement, and you have a night of leggy gallops.
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