Kismet
Kismet,visually spectacular show with a score based on the music of the Russian composer Alexander Borodin (1833–87). The writers George Forrest and Robert Wright created their own lyrics, having founded their musical on Edward Knoblock's Kismet of 1911. Kismet the musical opened at the Ziegfeld Theatre, New York in 1953, achieving a first run of over 500 performances. Its Arabian Nights setting follows the adventures of Hajj, a public poet who, in the space of an adventurous 24 hours, ascends from his lowly and disreputable position to a place of high influence with the Caliph in Baghdad.
Tom Higgins