Kiss me, Kate is a musical version of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. Provided to China Daily

Romantic, touching and hilarious, with a classic Cole Porter score, Kiss me, Kate is regarded as one of the greatest Broadway musicals of all time. For the first time, this classic, featuring an all-Australian cast, will come to China and enthrall audiences at the Beijing Exhibition Hall Theater, in September.

The organizer says that although Broadway musicals are not new to local audiences in recent years, this show will delight and surprise with its play-within-the play, a musical version of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.

The musical recounts the onstage and backstage antics of two bickering romantic couples during a touring production of The Taming of the Shrew where each character's onstage life is complicated by what is happening offstage.

The audience is in for a treat of 18 stirring tunes including Brush Up Your Shakespeare, Another Op'nin', Another Show and Why Can't You Behave.

Kiss Me, Kate has played 1,070 times on Broadway since 1884 at the New Century Theater and 501 times in London at the Coliseum Theater.

It bagged five Tony Awards for Best Musical, Authors, Composer and Lyricist, Costumes and Producers in 1949. The 1999 revival of Kiss Me, Kate also won five Tony Awards.