Happy New Year
Shows · Happy New Year
The musicalization of Philip Barry’s comedy of manners Holiday (1928) used mostly-familiar Cole Porter songs to fill out the evening but the show was still deemed uninteresting by the press.
- Opened
- 1980
- Performances
- 17
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Megamusical
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1980 | Morosco Theatre Original. April 27, 1980 · Burt Shevelove | 17 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
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10 passages naming Happy New Year, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
the “Happy New Year” music (“Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight”) in act II, scene 6—can be found in a third vocal score, published by the Welk Music Group, that also corresponds reasonably well to the 1946 touring production. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p52
McMartin’s tipsy Uncle Willie was “the only person on the stage who registers with clarity,” and although the actor delved into his role “with dangerous abandon,” his three songs weren’t all that great and perhaps just one would have been enough. (For McMartin, High Society must have seemed like déjà vu all over again.… book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p331
ion was Happy New Year (1980), a musical using songs by Cole Porter. book:the-stephen-sondheim-encyclopedia-rick-pender-rowman-littlefield-publishing-lanh#p738
But unlike Teddy and Alice or Happy New Year, which even with original music would probably not have worked, Big Deal was a show of real potential. book:not-since-carrie-forty-years-of-broadway-musical-flops-ken-mandelbaum#p241
Happy New Year Shoving songs in a script. SS oncuine old, something new, something borrowed—and the result made those involved mighty blue. book:broadway-musicals-the-biggest-hit-and-the-biggest-flop-of-filichia-peter-new-yor#p137
Happy New Year’s failure taught us that adding existing songs to a property leads to a synthetically unexciting show. book:broadway-musicals-the-biggest-hit-and-the-biggest-flop-of-filichia-peter-new-yor#p169
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