The Most Happy Fella, 1992

The run closed August 30, 1992

Opened

February 13, 1992

Closed

August 30, 1992

Performances

229

Previews

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Theatre

Booth Theatre

Of the 368 productions we hold that opened in the 1990s and record a performance count, this is the 89th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Most Happy Fella 2 more that season

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

6 of these 26 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 20 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

Gerald Gutierrez

Choreographer

Liza Gennaro

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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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What this page does not know

• No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
• No recording is held for The Most Happy Fella at all.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.