The Broadway revue marked the first collaboration between composer and lyricists and . By 1951, revues -- shows featuring independent songs and comedy sketches but no actual story -- were rare on Broadway, and was the last major one. "There's no plot and there's no play/Just ," proclaimed the lyrics of one song, mentioning the two stars, , a longtime Broadway comic best remembered as in the movie , and , an American who had made her name in the London production of and would go on to several films, including . The show was moderately successful, but as put it in his biography of his father, , "None of the songs lived." Certainly, no hits emerged from the score, yet there is some witty material, particularly (aka ), which is full of clever rhymes as it details the reason a woman is not only breaking up with a man, but also shooting him, and which recasts high as low . The cast album features none of the comedy sketches, so it is dominated by , who solos on five of the songs, with , the biggest name in the cast, having only one number to himself, while duetting with on As forgotten as the show itself, the cast album was out of print for decades until reissued it on CD just in time for its 50th anniversary in the fall of 2001. ~ William Ruhlmann