Happy New Year

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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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