With Alexander Borodin's soaring music fashioned by Robert Wright and George Forrest into 'Stranger in Paradise', 'Baubles', 'Bangles and Beads' and more evergreens, 'Kismet' turned the Broadway stage into a glittering, gleaming Arabian Nights' dream. Ideal material, in fact, for the dream factory. To Hollywood and director Vincente Minnelli, 'Kismet' was kismet. This lavish musical follows one fateful, fabulous day as a beggar-poet (Howard Keel) and his daughter (Ann Blyth) cross paths with a wicked wazir, a wily temptress, a handsome prince, a magical curse, opulent sets and exotic adventure. "Princes come, princes go", sings the beggar. Glorious 'Kismet' endures!