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It premiered on December 3 1953 at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York in the middle of a newspaper strike, and despite the lack of reviews was a hit, running for 583 performances. The original production starred Alfred Drake as the poet Hajj, Doretta Morrow as his daughter Marsinah, Richard Kiley as the young Caliph of Baghdad, and Joan Diener as the vampy wife of the evil Wazir. The show was even more successful in London's West End , enjoying a 648-show run at the Stoll Theatre. The musical ''Kismet'' was made into a film in 1955 starring Howard Keel and Ann Blyth ; a studio cast recording was made in 1991 starring Samuel Ramey . SYNOPSIS ''Kismet'' follows a poor poet-gone-beggar, Hajj, who sells rhymes on street corners, and his daughter Marsinah through an eastern tale of magical curses and evil potentates. MUSIC The derivation of musical numbers in ''Kismet'' from Borodin's music is given partially as follows: Act I
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" Stranger In Paradise " has been covered by many artists, including Bing Crosby and Tony Bennett ). The plot of the musical film Silk Stockings starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse revolves around the adaptation of a Russian composer's works for a jazzed-up Hollywood musical, and has been taken to be a reference to the adaptation of Borodin's works to Kismet. SOURCES
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