The Vamp

• Original Broadway Production (1955)
  New York, NY

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Original score

• The Spiel
  • aka Spieler's Song [no note]
• The Flickers
• Keep Your Nose to the Grindstone
• That's Where a Man Fits In
• I've Always Loved You
• You're Colossal
• Fan Club Chant
• Have You Met Delilah?
• Yeemy Yeemy
• The Vamps
• Delilah's Dilemma
• Four Little Misfits
• Samson and Delilah
• Why Does It Have to Be You?
• Ragtime Romeo
• I'm Everybody's Baby
• The Impossible She
• Mr. Right
• Who Needs Love?

Cut prior to opening

• Back Home Where I Come From
• You've Got to Give the Public What It Wants
• Little Miss Dracula

Based on a story by John Latouche

During the boom of silent cinema, a naïve small-town newcomer is catapulted into stardom when a studio mounts a lavish Samson-and-Delilah epic. Publicists, financiers, and opportunists swarm as the production lurches from spectacle to fiasco, reshaping personas to fit the camera’s gaze. The story lampoons the machinery of fame—screen tests, fan clubs, and image-making—while the would-be star navigates ambition, reinvention, and the costs of becoming a manufactured legend.

• Delilah (pre-Broadway title)