Productions1 on Broadway
| 1959 | 54th Street Theatre Original. October 7, 1959 · Allan A. Buckhantz | 5 performances |
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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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