It's Out of This World!
By Peter Filichia -- Many a musical theater writer has found that following a smash hit with another is difficult if not impossible. So after Cole Porter had the biggest success of his career -- Kiss Me, Kate on New Year's Eve, 1948 -- critics and audiences may have just been expecting that his next show would automatically be just as good. No. Not "just as good." Better. And while critics and audiences we…