The Most Happy Fella

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

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Original score

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

Cut prior to opening

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

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

• Studio Cast (1960)
  

  • Edwin Steffe
  • Stella Moray
  • Marion Grimaldi
  • Gordon Boyd
  • Peter Hudson
• Studio Cast (1960)
  

  • Ian Paterson
  • Janet Waters
  • Dennis MacGregor
  • Andy Cole
  • Joyce Blair

• Demo Recording [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)