Happy New Year, 1980

The run closed May 10, 1980

Opened

April 27, 1980

Closed

May 10, 1980

Performances

17

Previews

—

Theatre

Morosco Theatre

Of the 465 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and record a performance count, this is the 316th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it16 named

Richard Christopher
Morgan Ensminger
Mary Sue Finnerty
Tim Flavin
Lauren Goler
Roger Hamilton
Michelle Marshall
Bobbie Nord
J Thomas Smith
William Atherton

6 of these 16 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 10 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Director

Burt Shevelove

Choreographer

Donald Saddler

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

Around this production

Happy New Year. April 2—May, 10, 1980. 17 performances. Broadway Musicals the Biggest Hit and the Biggest Flop of Filichia Peter New Yor, p. 139

• 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. Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 52
• 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.… The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Paxton Mcnallie 2016 Rowm, p. 331
• ion was Happy New Year (1980), a musical using songs by Cole Porter. The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia Rick Pender Rowman Littlefield Publishing Lanh, p. 738
• 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. Not Since Carrie Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops Ken Mandelbaum, p. 241
• Happy New Year Shoving songs in a script. SS oncuine old, something new, something borrowed—and the result made those involved mighty blue. Broadway Musicals the Biggest Hit and the Biggest Flop of Filichia Peter New Yor, p. 137

Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.

What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
• No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
• No recording is held for Happy New Year at all.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.