Kismet
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• Kismet, with music adapted from the original Borodin by Robert Wright and George Forrest is an opulent musical set in Baghdad at the time of the Arabian Nights.
• Kismet was premiered by the Los Angeles-San Francisco Light Opera Company on August 17, 1953, in an opulent production by Edwin Lester which moved to Broadway on December 3 of that year, opening at the Ziegfeld Theater with the commanding Alfred Drake as Hajj, Doretta Morrow as Marsinah, and Richard Kiley as the Caliph.
• Though a newspaper strike delayed the news, Kismet was a resounding success, playing for 583 performances, and taking a Tony in 1954 for Outstanding Musical, before moving on to London for an even more successful run.
KISMET
Music from Alexander Borodin
Adapted with Lyrics by Robert Wright & George Forrest
Original Cast Recording 1953
Alfred Drake, Doretta Morrow, Richard Kiley, Joan Diener, Henry Calvin, Hal Hackett, Richard Oneto, Lucy Andonian, Conductor – Louis Adrian
BONUS RECORDINGS 1953–55
Night Of My Nights (Danny Kaye with Sonny Burke & His Orchestra); Baubles, Bangles And Beads, (Peggy Lee with Victor Young’s Orchestra); Stranger In Paradise (Ralph Flanagan & His Orchestra); Not Since Nineveh (Ross Bagdasarian with Nelson Riddle & His Orchestra); Bored (Dolores Gray with MGM Studio Orchestra cond. André Previn [from film soundtrack]); Bazaar Of The Caravans (Percy Faith & His Orchestra)