[2] The opening night cast starred Martin Balsam as Servingman and Walter Matthau, as Guard.

The cast included Melville Cooper, Paula Laurence, and Philip Coolidge.

[3] Title character Lelio can't stop lying and can't stop chasing the ladies, including the two daughters of Doctor Balanzoni who are respectively and romantically involved with Florindo and Octavio.

But the romantic misadventures are resolved when it is revealed that Lelio is already married to Cleonice.

[4] Richard Watts of The New York Post called the evening a "tedious and self-conscious antic .