Opened at the Shubert Theatre on November 6, 1957. Closed December 14, 1957 after 45 performances — 38 days. Rumple is a comedy-musical with a book by Irving Phillips, music by Ernest G. Schweikert, and lyrics by Frank Reardon. The story, based on Phillips' 1955 play The Funnyman, concerns a comic strip creator and his character, Rumple, who resists the discontinuation of the strip. Wiki link