An address book or a name and address book is a book, or a database used for storing entries, called contacts . Each contact entry usually consists of a few standard fields (for example: first name, last name, company name, address , telephone number, e-mail address, fax number, mobile phone number). Most such systems store the details in alphabetical order of people's names, although in paper -based address books entries can easily end up out of order as the owner inserts details of more individuals or as people move. Many address books use small ring binders that allow adding, removing, and shuffling of pages to make room.
43-446: The 1953 film version of Kiss Me, Kate features a musical scene in which Howard Keel 's character laments the loss of the social life he enjoyed before marriage, naming numerous female romantic encounters while perusing a miniature black book, which has given rise to the trope of a little black book referring to a list of past or potential sexual partners. Address books can also appear as software designed for this purpose, such as
86-578: A journalist for socialist and pacifist newspapers such as the New York Call . Her work drew attention from Samuel, working as a reporter for The World , and the couple married in 1922. Shortly afterwards, they departed for Moscow , where they worked as news correspondents for the next four years. After returning to the United States , they settled in New Hope, Pennsylvania . In
129-859: A "brief run", according to the Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre . The Royal Shakespeare Company staged a production which opened at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre , Stratford-upon-Avon , on February 10, 1987, toured the UK from March to May, and then played at London's Old Vic Theatre from May 19, 1987. Directed by Adrian Noble and staged by Ron Field , the production starred Nichola McAuliffe and Paul Jones as Lilli/Kate and Fred/Petruchio, with Tim Flavin and Fiona Hendley as Bill/Lucentio and Lois/Bianca. The gangsters were played by Emil Wolk and John Bardon , who shared
172-797: A 3½-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 . Brooks Atkinson of The New York Times praised
215-546: A once-married couple of thespians who use the stage on which they're performing as a battling ground. Bella initially began working with composer-lyricist Cole Porter on her own, but eventually turned to Sam to collaborate with her, and the Spewacks completed the project together. It yielded each of them two Tony Awards , one for Best Musical , the other for Best Author of a Musical . Kiss Me, Kate proved to be their most successful work. Perhaps their best known straight play
258-553: A return visit to Leeds Grand Theatre in May 2018. The Roundabout Theatre Company presented a revised third Broadway revival of Kiss Me, Kate with Kelli O'Hara as Lilli Vanessi/Kate, Will Chase as Fred Graham/Petruchio, Stephanie Styles as Lois Lane/Bianca, and Corbin Bleu as Bill Calhoun/Lucentio. The production is directed by Scott Ellis and choreographed by Warren Carlyle , with minor "feminist" updates by Amanda Green to make
301-441: A tribute to Shakespeare in which they explain that knowing Shakespeare is the key to romance ("Brush Up Your Shakespeare"). The company prepares for the conclusion of the play, the wedding of Bianca and Lucentio, even though they are now missing one of the main characters. However, just in time for Katherine's final speech, Lilli arrives onstage ("I Am Ashamed That Women Are So Simple"). Fred and Lilli wordlessly reconcile on stage, and
344-703: A writing team. Samuel, who also directed many of their plays, was born in Bachmut , Ukraine. He attended Stuyvesant High School in New York City and then received his degree from Columbia College . The oldest of three children of a single mother, Bella Cohen was born in Bucharest, Romania and with her family emigrated to the Lower East Side of Manhattan when she was a child. After graduation from Washington Irving High School , she worked as
387-655: Is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and a book by Bella and Samuel Spewack . The story involves the production of a musical version of William Shakespeare 's The Taming of the Shrew and the conflict on and off-stage between Fred Graham, the show's director, producer, and star, and his leading lady, his ex-wife Lilli Vanessi. A secondary romance concerns Lois Lane, the actress playing Bianca , and her gambler boyfriend, Bill, who runs afoul of some gangsters. The original production starred Alfred Drake , Patricia Morison , Lisa Kirk and Harold Lang . Kiss Me, Kate
430-625: Is being forced to stay at the theatre by the gangsters, but Howell doesn't believe her and wants to discuss wedding plans. Fred insidiously points out how boring Lilli's life with Howell will be compared with the theatre. Bill sings a love song he has written for Lois ("Bianca"). The gangsters discover that their boss has been killed, so the IOU is no longer valid. Lilli leaves—without Howell—as Fred unsuccessfully tries to persuade her to stay ("So in Love" (Reprise)). The gangsters get caught on stage and improvise
473-401: Is kept up to date. Many people have many different address books: their email accounts, their mobile phone , and the "friends lists" on their social networking services . A network address book allows them to organize and manage their address books through one interface and share their contacts across their different address books and social networks Kiss Me, Kate Kiss Me, Kate
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#1732781112358516-440: Is leaving the show. However, the gangsters have reappeared, and Fred tells them that if Lilli quits, he'll have to close the show and won't be able to pay them the $ 10,000. The gangsters force her to stay at gunpoint. Back onstage, Bianca and Lucentio dance while the chorus performs "We Sing of Love", covering a scene change. The curtain opens, revealing the exterior of a church; Petruchio and Kate have just been married, and they exit
559-460: Is married. However, she is shrewish and ill-tempered, and no man desires to marry her. Three suitors – Lucentio, Hortensio, and Gremio – try to woo Bianca, and she says that she would marry any of them (" Tom, Dick, or Harry "). Petruchio, a friend of Lucentio, expresses a desire to marry into wealth ("I've Come to Wive it Wealthily in Padua"). The suitors hatch a plan for him to marry Kate, as Baptista
602-475: Is playing Katherine . The two seem to be constantly arguing, and Lilli is particularly angry that Fred is pursuing the sexy young actress Lois Lane, who is playing Bianca . After the rehearsal, Lois's boyfriend Bill appears; he is playing Lucentio, but he missed the rehearsal because he was gambling. He tells her that he signed a $ 10,000 IOU in Fred's name, and Lois reprimands him (" Why Can't You Behave? "). Before
645-462: Is rich. Kate, however, has no intentions of getting married ("I Hate Men"). Petruchio attempts to woo her ("Were Thine That Special Face"). Offstage, Lilli has an opportunity to read the card. She walks on stage off-cue and begins hitting Fred, who, along with the other actors, tries to remain in character as Baptista gives Petruchio permission to marry Kate. Lilli continues to strike Fred, and he ends up spanking her. Offstage, Lilli furiously declares she
688-460: Is still "So In Love" with him. Fred tries to keep Lilli from reading the card that came with the flowers, which reveals that he really intended them for Lois. However, Lilli takes the card with her onstage, saying she will read it later. The show begins ("We Open in Venice"). Baptista, Katherine and Bianca's father, will not allow his younger daughter Bianca to marry until his older daughter Katherine
731-540: Is then indexed by search engines like Google and Bing. This in turn enables users to be found by other people via a search of their name and then contacted via their web page containing their personal information. Ability to find people registered with online address books via search engine searches usually varies according to the commonness of the name and the number of results for the name. Typically, users of such systems can synchronize their contact details with other users that they know to ensure that their contact information
774-744: The Italian Renaissance , Verdi's operas, blues, the Viennese waltz , and, in "Brush Up Your Shakespeare", the 1897 hybrid "Bowery waltz". In writing the lyrics for Kiss Me, Kate , Porter drew from Shakespearean themes and language, without creating something esoteric, and the song " Always True to You in My Fashion " was inspired by the Ernest Dowson poem " Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae ”, with its refrain "I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion". After
817-546: The Martin Beck Theatre on November 18, 1999, and closed on December 30, 2001, after 881 performances and 28 previews. Directed by Michael Blakemore , Produced by Richard Godwin , and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall and Rob Ashford , the opening night cast included Marin Mazzie , Brian Stokes Mitchell , Amy Spanger , Michael Berresse , Ron Holgate , Lee Wilkof and Michael Mulheren . This production won
860-543: The Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Musical and Best Actor in a Musical for Mitchell; Marin Mazzie received a Tony nomination for Best Actress in a Musical, and Michael Berresse , Lee Wilkof and Michael Mulheren received Tony nominations for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. A West End revival opened at the Victoria Palace Theatre on October 30, 2001, and closed on August 24, 2002. As with
903-440: The " Contacts " application included with Apple Inc. 's Mac OS . Simple address books have been incorporated into email software for many years, though more advanced versions have emerged in the 1990s and beyond, and in mobile phones (a SIM card can store entries). A personal information manager (PIM) integrates an address book, calendar , task list, and sometimes other features. Entries can be imported and exported from
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#1732781112358946-508: The "authentic book which is funny without the interpolation of gags. Cole Porter has written his best score in years, together with witty lyrics. Under Hanya Holm's direction, the dancing is joyous. And Lemuel Ayers has provided carnival costumes and some interesting scenery." The production won 5 Tony awards including Best Musical. The 1949 original cast recording has been inducted into the Library of Congress 's National Recording Registry for
989-803: The 1987 Olivier Award for Outstanding Performance of the Year by an Actor in a Musical, while McAuliffe won the Olivier for Outstanding Performance of the Year by an Actress in a Musical. The production moved to the Savoy Theatre on January 15, 1988, with a new cast. A short-lived Broadway revival ran at the Broadway Theatre in January 1952. It was directed by John C. Wilson and choreographed by Hanya Holm . Holly Harris and Robert Wright starred as Lilli and Fred. A Broadway revival opened at
1032-592: The 1999 Broadway revival, Michael Blakemore was the director with choreography by Kathleen Marshall. Brent Barrett and Marin Mazzie co-starred. Chichester Festival Theatre 's 2012 revival of the show transferred to the Old Vic Theatre on London's South Bank in November 2012, with an official opening in December. It starred Hannah Waddingham as Lili/Kate and Alex Bourne as Fred Graham. The production
1075-545: The Curtiz film, "Oddly enough, the new Paramount comedy, We're No Angels , gives sole credit to the Gallic original, then stalks the Spewacks almost scene by scene, without, alas, most of the fun." In 1965, Sam collaborated with Frank Loesser on a musical adaptation of the 1961 Spewack play Once There Was a Russian. Entitled Pleasures and Palaces , it closed following its Detroit run and never opened on Broadway. Bella
1118-467: The Life That Late I Led?"). Off-stage, Lilli's fiancé Harrison Howell is looking for Lilli. He runs into Lois, and she recognizes him as a former lover but promises not to tell Lilli. Bill is shocked to overhear this, but Lois tells him that even if she is involved with other men, she is faithful to him in her own way (" Always True to You in My Fashion "). Lilli tries to explain to Howell that she
1161-530: The London Coliseum, in a production by the Sadler's Wells Opera . The cast featured Emile Belcourt (Petruchio), Judith Bruce, Eric Shilling , Ann Howard (Kate), Francis Egerton and Robert Lloyd, with direction by Peter Coe and choreography by Sheila O'Neill. Coe did a translation for British audiences, including having "a tea wagon", and included "traditional English music hall jokes". This revival had
1204-502: The UK in 1964, starring Howard Keel , Patricia Morison and Millicent Martin , the third in 1968 with then husband-and-wife team Robert Goulet and Carol Lawrence , and the fourth in 2003 on Great Performances , a high-definition shot performance of the London revival with Brent Barrett and Rachel York . Bella Spewack Bella (25 March 1899 – 27 April 1990) and Samuel Spewack (16 September 1899 – 14 October 1971) were
1247-514: The Waldorf (1945), which starred Ginger Rogers . In the summer of 1943, Sam accompanied Lt. Burgess Meredith to England to co-write the U.S. Army training film A Welcome to Britain , which educated arriving troops on cultural differences between Americans and the British. The Spewacks were separated in 1948 when they were approached to write the book for Kiss Me, Kate , which centered on
1290-810: The album's "cultural, artistic and/or historical significance to American society and the nation's audio legacy". The original West End production opened on March 8, 1951, at the Coliseum Theatre , and ran for 400 performances. Directed by Sam Spewack with choreography again by Holm, this production starred Patricia Morison, Bill Johnson , Adelaide Hall and Julie Wilson . The original Australian production played from February 1952 at His Majesty's Theatre , Melbourne, before seasons in Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide until 1954. The production featured Hayes Gordon and Joy Turpin (later replaced by Evie Hayes ). A London revival opened in December 1970 at
1333-673: The church; the gangsters, dressed in Shakespearean costume, are onstage to make sure that Lilli stays. Petruchio implores for Kate to kiss him, and she refuses. He lifts her over his shoulder and carries her offstage while she pummels his shoulder with her fists ("Kiss Me Kate"). Act II During the show's intermission, the cast and crew relax in the alley behind the theater. Paul (Fred's assistant) and other crew members lament that it's " Too Darn Hot " to meet their lovers that night. The play continues, and Petruchio tries to 'tame' Katherine and mourns for his now-lost bachelor life ("Where Is
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1376-437: The gangsters. The production was filmed on stage for a November 17, 2024 release in UK cinemas and internationally. Act I The cast of a musical version of William Shakespeare 's The Taming of the Shrew is rehearsing for the opening of the show that evening (" Another Op'nin', Another Show "). Egotistical Fred Graham is the director and producer and is starring as Petruchio , and his movie-star ex-wife, Lilli Vanessi,
1419-436: The hit 1938 Cole Porter musical Leave It to Me! , for which the Spewacks wrote the book and which Sam directed. The Spewacks continued to write screenplays throughout the 1930s, earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Story for My Favorite Wife in 1940. The 1933 film The Solitaire Man was based on their 1927 play of the same name. They also penned a remake of Grand Hotel , entitled Week-End at
1462-421: The idea for Kiss Me, Kate after witnessing the on-stage/off-stage battling of husband-and-wife actors Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne during their 1935 production of The Taming of the Shrew . 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. Porter's score drew from musical styles of
1505-459: The latter part of the decade, Samuel wrote several novels, including Mon Paul , The Skyscraper Murder , and The Murder in the Gilded Cage , on his own, while the pair collaborated on plays. The two wrote several plays that made it to Broadway , including 1932's Clear All Wires. Although that play only ran for 93 performances, they adapted it for a 1933 film . It later became the basis of
1548-814: The musical "more accessible for today’s audiences". Roundabout produced a benefit concert of the show with O'Hara, Ellis, and Carlyle in 2016. The revival had a limited run at Studio 54 . Previews began on February 14, 2019, with the opening on March 14. The production closed on June 30, 2019. A revival directed by Bartlett Sher and choreographed by Anthony Van Laast ran at the Barbican Theatre in London from June 4 to September 14, 2024, with an official opening on June 18. The production starred Adrian Dunbar as Fred / Petruchio and Stephanie J. Block as Lilli / Katharine. Other cast members included Charlie Stemp as Bill / Lucentio, Georgina Onuorah as Lois / Bianca, and Nigel Lindsay and Hammed Animashaun as
1591-594: The opening, Fred and Lilli meet backstage, and Lilli shows off her engagement ring from Washington insider Harrison Howell, reminding Fred that it's the anniversary of their divorce. They recall the operetta in which they met, which included "Wunderbar", a Viennese waltz; they end up fondly reminiscing and singing and dancing. Two gangsters show up to collect the $ 10,000 IOU, and Fred replies that he never signed it. The gangsters obligingly say they will give him time to remember it and will return later. In her dressing room, Lilli receives flowers from Fred, and she declares that she
1634-406: The play ends ("Kiss Me Kate" (Finale)) with them, as well as Bill and Lois, kissing passionately. Act I Act II Notes A film version of the same name was released in 1953. There have been at least four television productions, the first on Hallmark Hall of Fame in 1958, with Drake and Morison reprising their Broadway roles, the second recorded for the launch of BBC Two in
1677-460: The software to transfer them between programs or computers. The common file formats for these operations are: Individual entries are frequently transferred as vCards (*.vcf), which are comparable to physical business cards . And some software applications like Lotus Notes and Open Contacts can handle a vCard file containing multiple vCard records. An online address book typically enables users to create their own web page (or profile page), which
1720-596: Was My Three Angels , which they adapted from the French play La Cuisine des Anges by Albert Husson . The French play was adapted as the 1955 Michael Curtiz film We're No Angels , which was later remade in 1989 by Neil Jordan . The Spewacks sued Paramount over the 1955 film, which purported to be based on the Husson original rather than their adaptation. As "H.H.T." wrote in the New York Times review of
1763-421: 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. The musical premiered in 1948 and proved to be Porter's only show to run for more than 1,000 performances on Broadway . In 1949, it won the first Tony Award for Best Musical . Producer Arnold Saint-Subber conceived
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1806-634: Was co-produced with Welsh National Opera who continued to tour it in 2016, first as part of the Shakespeare400 season at the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff , and then to Liverpool Empire Theatre , Bristol Hippodrome , New Theatre Oxford , Mayflower Theatre Southampton , Birmingham Hippodrome , and Venue Cymru Llandudno , before returning to Cardiff. The production was revived at London Coliseum briefly in June 2018, following
1849-582: Was directed by Trevor Nunn . The show received positive reviews from critics and audiences. Hannah Waddingham and Alex Bourne were both nominated for the 2013 Olivier Awards as Best Actress/Actor in a Musical for their performances. In September 2015 Opera North presented a revival directed by Jo Davies, choreographed by Will Tuckett . The production opened at the Leeds Grand Theatre before touring to Theatre Royal Newcastle , The Lowry Salford , and Theatre Royal Nottingham . The production
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