09/28/2010
The Performing Arts Department at SUNY Cortland has announced the cast for its October production of the Cole Porter Broadway musical comedy “Kiss me, Kate.”
The play will be performed on Fridays through Sundays on Oct. 22-24 and Oct. 29-31 in the Dowd Fine Arts Center Theatre. Tickets go on sale Wednesday, Oct. 1, at Jodi’s Hallmark Shop on Main Street.
Musical theater majors Derek Mellor and Katie Quigley will play, respectively, Fred Graham and Lilli Vanessi, the quarreling acting couple performing in a musical version of Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew.”
SUNY Cortland students Tim Fuchs and Amy Lamberti will play the secondary couple of hoofer Bill Calhoun and ingenue Lois Lane. Skylar Winter and Joey Gugliemelli will portray two gangsters who get involved with the performance.
Also in the large cast of SUNY Cortland students are Paul Smith, Rasheem Ford, Annali Fuchs, Doug Robbins, Ricky Wenthen and Physical Education Department faculty member Tom Fuchs. Completing the cast are Jacqui Fisher, Carly Merrill, Chrissy Jackson, Charles O’Connor, Lisa Reid, Sara Laursen, Alexa DeFina, Grace McGeoch, Mallary Walton, Samantha Rey, Natalie Luzzi, Nicole Herlihy and community member Barbara Jo Williams.
“Kiss me, Kate” is directed and choreographed by Kevin Halpin, associate professor of performing arts.
More information about the musical and this season’s other events can be found at www.cortland.edu/performingarts.