‘If her sweet pound of flesh you would menace, just recite from The Merchant of Venice. Brush up your Shakespeare, and they’ll all kow-tow.’ It’s men in tights and babes in bodices as The Taming of the Shrew meets Broadway in Kiss Me Kate, the best score the great, gay Cole Porter ever wrote. This big 1948 hit is in a new production at Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace, through Aug. 10. Among the standards from Kiss Me Kate: Wunderbar, I Hate Men, Another Opening, Another Show and Too Darn Hot. (630) 530-8300; $19-$25.