Shows · The Most Happy Fella · Booth Theatre, 1992
The Most Happy Fella, 1992
Of the productions that opened in the 1990s, this had the 89th longest run.
Other stagings of The Most Happy Fella 2 more
Who was in it26 named
Buddy Crutchfield
Tad Ingram
Bill Nabel
Charles Pistone
John Aller
Anne Allgood
Bill Badolato
Molly Brown
Kyle Craig
Mary Helen Fisher
Bob Freschi
T Doyle Leverett
Ken Nagy
Gail Pennington
Ed Romanoff
Jane Smulyan
John Soroka
Laura Streets
Thomas Titone
Melanie Vaughan
Creative team
- Director
- Gerald Gutierrez
- Choreographer
- Liza Gennaro
Recordings 1 released while this run was on
2 more exist for other runs of this show: see The Most Happy Fella for all of them.
Around this production
The Most Happy Fella is a 1956 musical with a book, music, and lyrics by Frank Loesser. The story, about a romance between an older man and younger woman, is based on the 1924 play They Knew What They Wanted by Sidney Howard. The show is described by some theatre historians and critics as operatic. The original Broadway production ran for 14 months and it has enjoyed several revivals, including one staged by the New York City Opera. It was broadcast in a live telecast of The Ed Sullivan Show on Sunday, October 28, 1956, the night of Elvis Presley's second appearance on that show. That broadcast was seen in some 168 stations in North America and garnered a 34.6 rating, a 57% share, with an es…
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