The run closed December 31, 1955
- Opened
- November 10, 1955
- Closed
- December 31, 1955
- Performances
- 60
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Winter Garden Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 286th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it50 named
Sandyl Cordell
Robert Daley
Pepe de Chazza
Rudy del Campo
Burnell Dietsch
Mary Jane Doerr
Dick Eskeli
Roger Franklin
Joyce Gladmond
Stokely Gray
Suan Hartman
David Kashner
Barbara Koerber
William Krach
Hugh Lambert
Lucia Lambert
Barbara Leigh
Paul Lipson
Bernice Massi
Vincent Mcmahon
David Neuman
Robert Norris
Lila Popper
Dom Salinaro
Donna Sanders
Helen Silver
Kelley Stephens
Mike Stevens
Kay Turner
Ralph Wayne
Pat Wharton
Danny Scholl
20 of these 50 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 30 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.
Characters15 roles recorded
Carol Channing Flora Weems / Delilah
David Atkinson Oliver Oxheart
Bibi Osterwald Bessie Bisco
Robert Rippy Dick Hicks / Stanley Hubermyer
Patricia Hammerlee Elsie Chelsea
Matt Mattox Charlie
Jack Waldron Myron Hubbard
Paul Lipson Barney Ostertag
Malcolm Lee Beggs Stark Clayton
Will Geer Uncle Garvey
Steve Reeves Samson / Muscle Man
Sandyl Cordell Aunt Hester
David Kashner Whip Man
Jack Harrold Bluestone
Cathryn Damon Ensemble
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- “Production” directed by David Alexander, “entire production” supervised by Robert Alton, David Alexander, Robert Alton
- Choreographer
- Robert Alton
- Producer
- Oscar Lerman, Martin Cohen, and Alexander Carson (Manuel D. Herbert, Associate Producer)
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.
Around this production
- Among the members of the original Broadway cast of Kismet was muscle man Steve Reeves (who played one of the Wazir’s guards); he later appeared in The Vamp , and soon thereafter headed for Italy where he became a superstar in a series of costume adventure epics. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 355
- Perhaps The Vamp was done in by the Silent Movie Curse, a small subgenre of musicals that dealt with the early era of moviemaking and/or its celebrities and that inevitably failed at the box office. Besides The Vamp , others in this field are Goldilocks (1958; 161 performances) and Mack and Mabel (1974; 65 performances… Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 513
- usicals that dealt with the early era of moviemaking and/or its celebrities and that inevitably failed at the box office. Besides The Vamp, others in this field are Goldilocks (1958; 161 performances) and Mack and Mabel (1974; 65 performances). The Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Hardcover 2014 Rowman Lit, p. 516
- She then ticked off the times she’d appeared at the theatre (in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Wonderful Town, The Vamp, Show Girl, the original tryout of Hello, Dolly!, and Four on a Garden), The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Paxton Mcnallie 2016 Rowm, p. 226
- “The Vamp,” starring Carol Channing, was the outstanding musical flop. A Pictorial History of the American Theatre 1860 1985 Blum, p. 350
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 photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for The Vamp at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.