[2] Produced by Theodore Mann and Dore Schary, the Broadway production, opened on 10 November 1965 at the Cort Theatre, where it ran for 179 performances.

[4] The play description written by C. Burr, included on the original cast album, notes: Dan Jacobson, the author of the original story upon which this work was based, was born in 1929 in Johannesburg, South Africa, where his family had fled to escape persecution of Jews in Europe.

[5] The original story, "The Zulu and the Zeide", was also the basis of a one-man performance without music, created and performed by Michael Picardie of the Everyman Theater in Cardiff, Wales as part of the 2004 Leeds (UK) International Jewish Theater Festival.

The following list includes credits noted on the production's opening night:[12] The New York Daily News called the play "...something to warm the heart, lighten the spirit.

For example, a Time magazine reviewer wrote that: Pearl Harand, who recreated the production as a one-woman performance, interspersing dialogue, story description, and song, described the work as follows: