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At the opening of the Public Theater’s free Shakespeare in the Park production of “The Taming of the Shrew” — the first voice heard from the stage sounded unexpectedly familiar.

As directed by Phyllida Lloyd, the play begins with a beauty pageant, and an emcee who sounds just like GOP candidate and former Miss USA king Donald Trump announcing contestants like “Miss Padua.”

Laughing in the crowd were Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater, producer and Public board chair Arielle Tepper Madover and husband Ian Madover, Sophie Elgort, and Oskar Eustis.

VIPs earlier gathered at an al fresco dinner by Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group to toast Tepper Madover’s Web venture, What Should We Do.