[2] In addition to writing the book, music and lyrics, Jerry Herman directed the show with choreography and staging by Richard Tone.

The cast included Dody Goodman, Richard Tone, Fia Karin, Charles Nelson Reilly, and Lester James.

[4] For example, Herman used the song "Show Tune" with a new lyric and stronger B section, as "It's Today" in Mame.

[5] The songs and sketches reflected some topical and local subjects, such as Goodman and Reilly portraying New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller and his wife, explaining why he decided not to run for president in the 1960 election.

William Ruhlman wrote that the romantic ballads – "Your Hand in Mine," "The Next Time I Love," "Another Candle" – "might have had a chance to live beyond the show if it had been more successful.