Happy Hunting

... Director	Abe Burrows
... Dances and Musical Numbers	Alex Romero Bob Herget

Cast

... Sanford Stewart, Jr.	Gordon Polk
... Mrs. Sanford Stewart, Sr.	Olive Templeton
... Beth Livingstone	Virginia Gibson
... Liz Livingstone	Ethel Merman
... Mary Mills, a reporter	Estelle Parsons
... Maud Foley	Mary Finney
... Arturo	Leon Belasco
... Duke of Granada	Fernando Lamas
... Count Carlos	Renato Cibelli
... Joseph	Mitchell M. Gregg

Act One

Act Two

Additional Musical Numbers Lists

These song lists document any changes that the production went through aside from the opening night song list.

• During Broadway Run (5/24/1957)

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In May 1957, two solo songs for Ethel Merman were added to the show. They replaced two songs by the show's primary songwriters: Matt Dubey (lyrics) and Harold Karr (music). "Just a Moment Ago" replaced "This Is What I Call Love" in the first act. It was added to the show on May 6, 1957, according to Sam Zolotow's New York Times theatre column on May 7, 1957. The other song, titled "I'm Old Enough to Know Better, and Young Enough Not to Care" replaced "The Game of Love" in the second act. The change occurred on May 24, 1957, according to Zolotow's column of that date. Both song were credited solely to Kay Thompson. According to Brian Kellow's Ethel Merman: A Life, they were written by Roger Edens, but he could not take credit for them because he was working for MGM on an exclusive contract. According to Sam Irvin's book Kay Thompson: From Funny Face to Eloise, the two songs were co-written by Thompson and Edens.

On page 305, Irvin's book also quotes cast member George Martin saying that Thompson wrote Merman's first song in the show, "It's Good to Be Here" (more popularly known as "Gee, But It's Good to Be Here" as it was listed by that title on the cast recording). Martin is quoted as having said, "Kay came in and she secretly wrote that new opening number for Merman. She came to Philadelphia when we were in previews and that's where it happened. Just listen to it. It's typical Kay. Like 'Madame Crematante' in Ziegfeld Follies, it has Merman addressing a bunch of reporters—and I was one of the reporters. But Karr and Dubey were given the credit because their contract or the union made it difficult not to."

Main Run

• Majestic Theatre (New York, NY)
  December 6, 1956 - November 30, 1957

Tryout

• Shubert Theatre (Philadelphia, PA)
  October 22, 1956 - November 10, 1956
• Shubert Theatre (Boston, MA)
  November 13, 1956 - December 1, 1956

Commercial Recordings

• Original Broadway Cast (1956)
  Gordon Polk , Olive Templeton , Mitchell M. Gregg , Virginia Gibson , Seth Riggs

Private Recordings

• No private audio listed yet.

Broadcast Recordings

• No broadcast audio listed yet.

Archival Recordings

• No archival audio listed yet.