[2] The musical (originally called In Someone Else's Sandals) was based on a 1938 German-language play, King Solomon and the Cobbler.
The original director was Michael Benthall and the composer was Ernest Gold, whose work included the film score for Exodus.
[4] Ken Mandelbaum wrote that the show "featured two of the most flop-prone performers of recent musical theatre history, Carmen Mathews (Zenda, Courtin' Time, The Yearling, Dear World, Ambassador, Copperfield) and Karen Morrow (I Had a Ball, A Joyful Noise, The Selling of the President,The Grass Harp)."
"[5] When the show closed in a week, coproducer Zvi Kolitz told the press I’m Solomon had been the 'victim of the arbitrariness, haughtiness, shallowness, and heartlessness of the television critics.'
But what places it firmly in the category of the bizarre was the absurdly overblown production it received... there were enormous sets, large choral numbers, harlots, concubines, and belly dancers, all swamping the slender plot, which might have been the basis for a cute off-Broadway musical.