Kiss Me, Kate

It is the first night of a musical Taming of the Shrew in Baltimore, and the fiercest battle is being fought in the wings. Fred Graham, its star and director, and Lilli Vanessi, his leading lady and ex-wife, cannot share a stage without trading blows, while the flirtatious Lois Lane, her gambling boyfriend Bill and a pair of debt-collecting gangsters pile on the chaos.