 This production had the longest run of any revival of a musical in the history of the Broadway theatre at the time.It won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Musical and became the first musical ever to receive eleven Donaldson Awards.Elaine Stritch was signed as an understudy to Ethel Merman in "Call Me Madam" at the time; she describes the difficulties of holding both jobs after the previews unexpectedly moved to New Haven in a monologue framed by "Zip" in her one-woman show "Elaine Stritch at Liberty".