<P> Kiss Me, Kate was Porter's response to Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! and other integrated musicals; it was the first show he wrote in which the music and lyrics were firmly connected to the script, and it proved to be his biggest hit and the only one of his shows to run for more than 1,000 performances on Broadway . In 1949, it won the first Tony Award presented for Best Musical . </P> <P> On March 25, 2015, it was announced that the 1949 original cast recording would be inducted into the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry for the album's "cultural, artistic and / or historical significance to American society and the nation's audio legacy". </P> <P> The musical was inspired by the on - stage / off - stage battling of husband - and - wife actors Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne during their 1935 production of Shrew, witnessed by future Broadway producer Arnold Saint - Subber . In 1947 he asked the Spewacks (undergoing their own marital woes at the time) to write the script; Bella Spewack in turn enlisted Cole Porter to write the music and lyrics . </P> <P> After a 31⁄2 - week pre-Broadway tryout at the Shubert Theatre in Philadelphia starting December 2, 1948, the original Broadway production opened on December 30, 1948, at the New Century Theatre, where it ran for nineteen months before transferring to the Shubert, for a total run of 1,077 performances . Directed by John C. Wilson with choreography by Hanya Holm, the original cast included Alfred Drake, Patricia Morison, Lisa Kirk, Harold Lang, Charles Wood and Harry Clark . </P>

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