The run closed April 23, 1955
- Opened
- December 3, 1953
- Closed
- April 23, 1955
- Performances
- 583
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Ziegfeld Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 39th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Kismet 1 more that season
| 1911 | Knickerbocker Theatre Original · Harrison Grey Fiske | 184 perf. |
Who was in it76 named
Neile Adams
Lucy Andonian
Gerald Cardoni
Tom Charlesworth
Anita Coulter
Patricia Dale
Jack Dodds
Patricia Dunn
Bonnie Evans
Stephen Ferry
Truman Gaige
Hal Hackett
Lila Jackson
Devra Kline
Mario Lamm
Robert Lamont
Florence Lessing
Earle Macveigh
Jack Mei Ling
Jo Ann O Connell
Carol Ohmart
Richard Oneto
Joyce Palmer
Louis Polacek
Ania Romaine
George E Romaine
Reiko Sato
Rodolfo Silva
Barbara Slate
Kirby Smith
Vida Ann Solomon
Sandra Stahl
Roberta Stevenson
Ralph Strane
Lynne Stuart
Erica Twiford
Richard Vine
John Weidemann
George Yarick
Elaine Malbin
Carmen Austin
Francis Compton
Ronnie Field
Ann Flood
April Gaskins
Phyllis Gehrig
Arthur Hammond
Stuart Hodes
Ingeborg Kjeldsen
Nancy Lynch
Bruce Mackay
George Martin
Don Rogers
Alan Smith
Joanne Spiller
Edward Thuren
Prue Ward
Don Weissmuller
Jeane Williams
Doris Yarick
16 of these 76 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 60 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Albert Marre
- Choreographer
- Jack Cole
- Producer
- Charles Lederer, Edwin Lester
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 1 from 1 nomination
| Best Musical | Won |
Around this production
- Alexander Borodin (1833–1887) had died seventy years before “his” musical Kismet opened on Broadway, and thus became the oldest Tony Award winner (of course, his music had been adapted by Robert Wright and George Forrest). Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 366
- Steve Reeves played the Muscle Man and Samson in the musical, and previously was one of the Wazir’s tough guards in Kismet. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 512
- She first gained widespread acclaim in 1953 for her performance as the lusty, busty Lalume in Kismet, her style perfectly suited to the exotic songs “Not Since Nineveh” and “Rahadlakum.” After the out-of-town closing of the 1956 version of the Ziegfeld Follies with Tallulah Bankhead, she worked exclusively with her hus… Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 175
- ctor Richard Kiley, who, in a Jramatic | his rich baritone voice to great advantage in Broadway musicals. He musical debut as the juvenile lead in Kismet, singing ‘ Redhead, and was almost continually employed through the 1960s, as the r tic lead of No Strings and in the Buddy Hackett vehicle / Had a Ball. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 213
- he soon delivered another star turn as Hajj in Kismet, winning a Tony Award. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 245
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for Kismet at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.