From left to right, Michael Berresse and Amy Spanger are paired in Kiss Me, Kate as lovers Lois and Bill, while Marin Mazzie and Brian Stokes Mitchell play the feuding husband and wife team, Lilli and Fred. Kiss Me, Kate, in a new Michael Blakemore directed revival opened at the Martin Beck Theatre Nov. 18. Mitchell and Mazzie, vets of Ragtime, lead the company as former spouses who are performing -- and sparring -- in a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew.