The original production starred Walter Abel, Martin Milner and Dyan Cannon and ran for 24 performances.
The production marked the Broadway directorial debut of Philip Rose, who was a successful producer with plays such as A Raisin in the Sun and The Owl and the Pussycat.
The cast included Darryl Hickman and Susan Anspach alongside Walter Abel, Mary Cooper, Dors Belack (Rose's wife), Tony Lo Bianco and Nicolas Coster.
She had previously appeared on Broadway in The Fun Couple and toured in How to Succeed in Business but was best known at the time for being married to Cary Grant; she had just filed divorce proceedings against him.
Goldman argued "if the girl had been cast as a boy, the play might have worked... People are always talking about how they'd like to see Virginia Woolf and Streetcar done all male.
"[9] Rose wrote in his memoirs "we received mixed reviews, with many saying that the play was amusing but a piece of fluff, which was certainly valid.