answers: 1948
context: three to make speeches at shipyard plants, but they just want to find a good time. Kiss Them for Me (play) Kiss Them for Me is a 1945 Broadway production based on Frederic Wakeman Sr.'s 1944 novel entitled "Shore Leave". The play ran for 110 performances. Opening at the Belasco Theatre on March 20, 1945, it closed at the Fulton Theatre on June 23 of the same year. The play, set in The St. Mark Hotel and a naval hospital in San Francisco, centers on three navy war heroes who have been sent on a "vacation". The morale-building trip, which </s> Kiss Them for Me (play) Kiss Them for Me is a 1945 Broadway production based on Frederic Wakeman Sr.'s 1944 novel entitled "Shore Leave". The play ran for 110 performances. Opening at the Belasco Theatre on March 20, 1945, it closed at the Fulton Theatre on June 23 of the same year. The play, set in The St. Mark Hotel and a naval hospital in San Francisco, centers on three navy war heroes who have been sent on a "vacation". The morale-building trip, which is really a public relations effort, is overseen by an officer who tries to get the </s> in it. The biopic's success contrasted starkly with the failure of Vincente Minnelli's film "The Pirate" (1948), with Judy Garland and Gene Kelly, in which five new Porter songs received little attention. From this low spot, Porter made a conspicuous comeback in 1948 with "Kiss Me, Kate". It was by far his most successful show, running for 1,077 performances in New York and 400 in London. The production won the Tony Award for best musical (the first Tony awarded in that category), and Porter won for best composer and lyricist. The score includes "Another Op'nin', Another Show", "Wunderbar", "So In
question: when was the musical kiss me kate written