The Happy Time
Shows · The Happy Time
A gentle, nostalgic look at a French-Canadian family, The Happy Time was adapted from the novel by Robert Fontaine and the play by Samuel Taylor. The story is primarily concerned with the coming of age of Bibi Bonnard (Mike Rupert) and his desire to see the world with his Uncle Jacques (Robert Goulet), a footloose magazine photographer who has returned to his family for a brief visit.
- Opened
- 1968
- Performances
- 286
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Revolution
Productions2 on Broadway
| 1950 | Plymouth Theatre Original. January 24, 1950 · Robert Lewis · predates this show | 614 performances |
| 1968 | Broadway Theatre Revival. January 18, 1968 | 286 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 1 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 2 albums held
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45 passages naming The Happy Time, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
The Happy Time bore a certain resemblance to 110 in the Shade, a previous musical by N. Richard Nash that had also been presented by David Merrick. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p214
The Happy Time.The (musical), 192 Happy Time, The (play), I 13 book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p365
RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN produced Samuel Taylor’s The Happy Time (1/24/50; 614 performances), with Claude Dauphin, Johnny Stewart, Eva Gabor, and Kurt Kasznar. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p434
He won a Tony Award for his portrayal of Jacques Bonnard in The Happy Time (1968). book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p170
RUPERT, MICHAEL (ALSO KNOWN AS MIKE RUPERT, 1951– ). Singing actor who made his Broadway debut at age 16 as Bibi Bonnard in The Happy Time. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p342
(Little did everyone know that the month’s big musical, The Happy Time, with heavyweights Merrick, Champion, and Goulet in attendance, would eventually wipe both of ’em off the books with a million-dollar wipeout.) book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p241
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