
The Most Happy Fella
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Frank Loesser’s 'The Most Happy Fella' stands as a towering, undisputed masterpiece of the golden-era lyric theater stage, running for an astonishing 676 performances during its historic 1956 premiere at the Imperial Theatre and capturing the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Musical. Conceived as a grand-scale, entirely through-composed folk-pop opera, the narrative follows an aging Italian immigrant vineyard grower who uses a handsome foreman's photograph to trick a lonely waitress into marriage, universalizing standards like "Standing on the Corner." Directed by Joseph Anthony, the premiere starred Robert Weede.

