The Broadway production of "Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1952" opened at the Royale Theater on May 16, 1952 and ran for 365 performances. June Carroll, Allen Conroy, Alice Ghostley, Ronny Graham, Eartha Kitt, Paul Lynde, Carol Lawrence, Bill Mullikin, Rosemary O'Reilly and Jimmy Russell recreated their Broadway roles in the film.