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The Vamp

Opened 1955

60 performances

Musical, Golden Age

Carol Channing, who was in the 1955 production. Eric Skipsey-Los Angeles-photographer

The Vamp seems to have had so much going for it. Here was Carol Channing as farm girl Flora Weems (a great musical-comedy-character name if ever there was one), plucked from obscurity to become the most famous vamp of the silent screen era; added to the fun were bombastic director Oliver J. Oxheart (David Atkinson), pushy Hollywood columnist Bessie Bisco (Bibi Osterwald), poisono

Music: James Mundy (incidental music by Jack Pfeiffer)
Lyrics: John LaTouche
Book: John LaTouche and Sam Locke

Productions1 on Broadway

1955

Winter Garden TheatreBroadway Original, opened November 10, 1955, directed by “Production” directed by David Alexander and “entire production” supervised by Robert Alton

60 performances

Songs17 songs

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