Happy New Year

• North American Premiere (1979)
  Stratford, Ontario, Canada
• Original Broadway Production (1980)
  New York, NY

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Original score

• At Long Last Love
• Ridin' High
• Let's Be Buddies
• Boy, Oh, Boy
• Easy to Love
• You Do Something to Me
• Red, Hot and Blue!
• Once Upon a Time
• Night and Day
• Let's Make It a Night
• Ours
• After You, Who?
• I Am Loved
• To Hell with Everyone But Us
• Find Me a Primitive Man
• Bless the Bride
• Nervous

Cut prior to opening

• When Your Troubles Have Started
• I'm in Love at Last
• See for Yourself
• Goodbye, Little Dream, Goodbye
• My Lover Loves Me

Based on the play Holiday by Philip Barry

A charming Wall Street lawyer becomes disillusioned with conventional success and seeks a life of authenticity and joy. Engaged to a wealthy socialite, he reconnects with her more free-spirited sister and begins to question his path. As expectations clash with desire for spontaneity, romantic entanglements shift. A witty, self-aware narrator guides the audience through the ups and downs. In the end, the lawyer chooses love and liberation over comfort and pretense, redefining what it means to be truly alive.

Based on the play 'Holiday' by Philip Barry.

The songs in the song list which do not credit other shows could not be traced under the titles used and are possibly alternate titles and/or lyrics to Porter songs. Buster Davis is given program credit for editing Cole Porter's songs.

This show also contained over a dozen additional Cole Porter songs used as incidental music. Those indentified in the New York production include: 'Just One of Those Things', 'It's De-Lovely', 'Take Me Back to Manhattan', 'Make It Another Old-Fashioned, Please', 'They Couldn't Compare to You', 'You've Got That Thing', 'Every Time We Say Goodbye', 'Let's Do It', 'Where Have You Been?', 'Let's Fly Away', 'Girls', 'What Is This Thing Called Love?'

• Holiday (no note)