One Fun Theatrical Fact. The song is performed by the chorus, but there is a main group of people singing, and one of those is an actor named Gino Conforti. A few years earlier, he appeared in another Harnick and Bock show, Fiddler on the Roof, playing the role of...the Fiddler!
For those who want to see the song staged, which gets increasingly frenetic, here's a fairly good community theater production