The Most Happy Fella

• Original Broadway Production (1956)
  New York, NY
• National Tour (1957)
  USA
• M
  City Center Revival (1959)
  New York, NY
• Bus and Truck Tour (1959)
  USA
• London Production (1960)
  London, England
• M
  City Center Revival (1966)
  New York, NY
• M
  Broadway Revival (1979)
  New York, NY
• M
  New York City Opera Revival (1991)
  New York, NY
• Broadway Revival (1992)
  New York, NY
• M
  New York City Opera Revival (2006)
  New York, NY
• Encores! Concert (2014)
  New York, NY

There are a total of 16 productions in Ovrtur's database.

Click on the title for info on the song.

• Original score

  • Ooh, My Feet
    • a.k.a. Ooh! My Feet!
  • I Know How It Is
    • a.k.a. I know how it is
  • Seven Million Crumbs
  • I Don't Know
    • a.k.a. I don't know
    • a.k.a. The Letter
  • Maybe He's Kind of Crazy
    • a.k.a. Maybe he's kind of crazy
  • Somebody, Somewhere
    • a.k.a. Somebody Somewhere
  • The Most Happy Fella
  • A Long Time Ago
    • a.k.a. A long time ago
  • Standing on the Corner
  • Joey, Joey, Joey
  • Soon You Gonna Leave Me, Joe
    • a.k.a. Soon you gonna leave me, Joe
  • Rosabella
  • Abbondanza
  • Plenty Bambini
    • a.k.a. Plenty bambini
  • Sposalizio
  • Special Delivery!
    • a.k.a. I seen her at the station
  • Benvenuta
  • Aren't You Glad?
    • a.k.a. Aren't you glad?
  • No Home, No Job
    • a.k.a. No home, no job
  • Don't Cry
  • Prelude to Act II
  • Fresno Beauties
  • Cold and Dead
    • a.k.a. Cold and dead
  • Love and Kindness
    • a.k.a. Love and kindness
  • Happy to Make Your Acquaintance
  • I Don't Like This Dame
    • a.k.a. I don't like this dame
  • Big D
  • How Beautiful the Days
  • Young People
  • Warm All Over
  • Old People Gotta
    • a.k.a. Old people gotta
  • I Like Everybody
    • a.k.a. I Like Ev'rybody
  • I Love Him
    • a.k.a. I love him
  • Like a Woman Loves a Man
    • a.k.a. Like a woman loves a man
  • My Heart Is So Full of You
  • Hoedown
  • Mamma, Mamma
  • Prelude to Act III
  • Goodbye Darlin'
    • a.k.a. Good-bye, darlin'
    • a.k.a. Goodbye Darling
  • Song of a Summer Night
  • Please Let Me Tell You
  • Tell Tony and Rosabella Good-bye for Me
    • a.k.a. Tell Tony and Rosabella good-bye for me
  • She Gonna Come Home Wit' Me
    • a.k.a. She gonna come home wit' me
  • Nobody's Ever Gonna Love You
    • a.k.a. Nobody's ever gonna love you
  • I Made a Fist!
    • a.k.a. I made a fist

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• Cut prior to opening

  • House and Garden
  • Eyes Like a Stranger
  • Wanting to Be Wanted

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Recordings listed here were done in the studio specifically to release as recordings. They do not represent cast recordings of a particular production.

• Demo Recording (unknown year) - audio

Based on the play They Knew What They Wanted by Sidney Howard

Frank Loesser spent five years writing The Most Happy Fella.

• Project Three (working title)
• They Knew What They Wanted (no note)