Make Mine Manhattan premiered on
Broadway at the
Broadhurst Theatre on January 15, 1948, and closed on January 8, 1949, after 429 performances. It has previously had a tryout in Philadelphia at the
Forrest Theatre for two weeks starting December 23, 1947. It was staged and lighted by
Hassard Short, with sketches directed by
Max Liebman; music directed by Charles Sanford; choreography by Lee Sherman, settings by Frederick Fox and costumes by
Morton Haack. The company included
Sid Caesar, in his Broadway debut,
David Burns,
Sheila Bond, Jack Kilty,
Wayne Lamb,
Kyle MacDonnell,
Joshua Shelley and others.
Brooks Atkinson of
The New York Times called it "a very pleasant musical revue." David Ewin described the show as follows: "Perhaps its greatest significance lay in the fact that it introduced Sid Caesar as one of the supreme comics of our time." ==Songs ==