Shows · Happy Town
Happy Town is a musical comedy that opened on Broadway October 7, 1959 and closed October 10, 1959 after only five performances. The music was by Gordon Duffy, lyrics by Harry Haldane, and book by Max Hampton, with additional songs by Paul Nassau.
- Opened
- 1959
- Performances
- 5
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Golden Age
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1959 | 54th Street Theatre Original. October 7, 1959 · Allan A. Buckhantz | 5 performances |
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7 passages naming Happy Town, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
There was even a Doc Spooner and a Reverend Hornblow. And to let the audience know how exciting the songs were, the program boasted no less than seven titles which ended with exclamation points. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p816
The six book musicals for which it appears no songs have been commercially recorded are: Happy as Larry, The Liar, Jotham Valley, Hit the Trail, Portofino, and Happy Town. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p875
Happy Town was a hopeless vanity production that didn’t last beyond its first week on Broadway. Considering that it shut down during its Boston tryout for a complete rewrite, it’s surprising the musical even made it to New York. book:the-complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-hardcover-2014-rowman-lit#p821
The major flops of the year were Happy Town (5s), which left New York anything but, and Juno (16) book:west-end-broadway-the-golden-age-of-the-american-musical-adrian-wright-boydell-b#p169
Because of the role’s vocal demands Edwin Steffe, fresh from a disaster of a Broadway musical Happy Town, was brought in to play Tony at certain performances, and unusually shared top billing with Wiata. book:west-end-broadway-the-golden-age-of-the-american-musical-adrian-wright-boydell-b#p177
contributing two songs to New Faces of 1956 and some additional material to Happy Town, a three-performance failure in 1959. book:b007l4owcu-ebok-peter-filichia#p69
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