Everyone in Melbourne knows exactly why I’m posting this clip today.  And it’s not because Ann Miller is gorgeous and brilliant, though that is certainly the case too…

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CYjE9Gv3A4&w=420&h=315]This is Ann Miller as Lois Lane (the Bianca character) in Kiss Me Kate, the music theatre version of Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew.  I have to admit, much like Shrew itself, Kiss Me Kate leaves me longing to shake the author / composer, but Ann Miller is always wonderful.  She is also invariably typecast as the fun-loving and decidedly sexy brunette friend in every single musical I’ve seen her in.  And she is a truly incredible dancer.

Here she is as Claire, the anthopologist with a close, personal appreciation for pre-historic man in On The Town.  Possibly the silliest dance routine I’ve seen in a while, not least because it involves dinosaur bones.

I’m off to find a shopping centre with air-conditioning.  See you when it cools down!