The smash hit production of Kiss Me Kate from Broadway comes to The Victoria Palace. Historically, this theatre has been the home of many successful musicals and is enormously popular with the 'coach party' trade. However, the show is big and the stage is not one of Londons largest.

If ever there was a close run thing when fitting a production into a theatre, then this is it. The show uses the entire stage depth of just over 9 metres and the average distance between each flying piece is little more than 250 mm. The show uses all 38 counterweight sets and Unusual have diverted flying sets to maximise the flying space as well as grouping sets to fly the heavier pieces.Like many shows nowadays, it has a false floor but in the case of the Victoria Palace, there is a marked slope from stage right down to stage left. Once the false floor was levelled, it became obvious that the flying sets, which were levelled to the stage, would also have to be re-levelled to match the production floor.

Production rigger Simon Stone with a team of three riggers also installed vertical I beams for the 2 tonne flying bridge guides as well as crawl-through truss for the Front of House lighting.