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Ruth Leon recommends….So in Love – Kiss Me Kate

Ruth Leon recommends….So in Love – Kiss Me Kate

So in Love – Kiss Me Kate

There’s a new production of Cole Porters great musical at the Barbican Theatre until Sept 14th. The casting is a bit odd. Who would ever have thought of bluff, Irish Adrian Dunbar  r as a matinee idol who sings some of the most romantic songs ever written for the musical stage?

Nothing odd about the choice of his leading lady, though, Tony Award-winning Broadway royalty Stephanie J. Block.   Here she is, in a garden somewhere, with  this glorious romantic ballad, ‘So In Love from Kiss me, Kate.
Just because.

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