Productions3 on Broadway
| 1956 | Imperial Theatre Original. May 3, 1956 · Joseph Anthony | 676 performances |
| 1979 | Majestic Theatre Revival. October 11, 1979 · Jack O'Brien | 53 performances |
| 1992 | Booth Theatre Revival. February 13, 1992 · Gerald Gutierrez | 229 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International The Most Happy Fella matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
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In the literature39 passages
Frank Loesser’s The Most Happy Fella (1956) book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p4
Her solid and commanding stage presence and her no-nonsense way with a song should have catapulted her into stardom, but except for The Most Happy Fella all her appearances were in short-running musicals (Oh Captain! , Whoop-Up , and Donnybrook! ). book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p284
Frank Loesser’s The Most Happy Fella (1956), Leonard Bernstein’s Candide (1956), and Blitzstein’s Juno (1959). book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p320
Three other musicals touched upon the basic plot of Fanny (a young woman is deserted by her lover and marries an older man), two of which were also set in France: Michel Legrand’s 1964 film musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and Stephen Schwartz’s 1976 The Baker’s Wife, which closed during its pre-Broadway tryout (like… book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p426
The original cast album was released on a three-LP set by Columbia (# OL-5120-22) and later issued by Sony Broadway on CD (# 52K-48010), and it remains the definitive recording of the score. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p538
The original London production opened on April 21, 1960, at the Coliseum for 288 performances; the cast included Inia Watts (Tony) and Helena Scott (Rosabella), with Art Lund again as Joe and Libi Staiger as Cleo, the role she had played for the 1959 revival. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p539
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