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	Metroactive Stage \| 'The Most Happy Fella'
		Happy Haircut: Stephen Walsh and Tara Generalovich co-star.
		The sprawling story involves the fits-and-starts relationship between insecure, lovestruck grape grower Tony and the pretty young waitress from San Francisco named Rosabella who agrees to marry him based only on his letters and a photograph that turns out to be of someone younger and more handsome.
		Though all of this might make Happy Fella seem light and frivolous, there is plenty of realism and edgy twists and turns, with characterizations that are far from fl-and-white.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/09.14.05/fella-0537.html (532 words)

	The Most Happy Fella
		The Most Happy Fella is a rich, engaging story filled with music that ranges from lavish to silly.
		"Most Happy Fella" is a challenge to perform but the cast proves they have the ability to perform a musical containing a wide range of drama and comedy and a challenging musical score.
		Factoid: The Most Happy Fella will run tonight, July 10 and 11 at 8 p.m.
	www.dailyegyptian.com /Summer98/7-10-98/happyfella.html (656 words)

	Show Plot: The Most Happy Fella: Music Theatre International - MTI - Musical Theatre Broadway Shows Available for ...
		Everyone appears most interested at the arrival of another letter for Tony Esposito who has been having a mail order love affair for some time now.
		During the dancing, Rosabella collapses to the ground and is taken to the house to be examined by the doctor.
		Tony is a bit angry with all of this, but is happy when the doctor tells him that Rosabella is just a bit light-headed.
	www.mtishows.com /show_plot.asp?ID=000052 (3805 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - The Most Happy Fella (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		All these qualities are vividly evident in his operatic musical "The Most Happy Fella." Virtually sung-through, this show has so many musical moods -- from lush, expansive arias to pure theatrical pop -- that it only works when performed by a powerhouse cast.
		When Rosabella accepts his marriage proposal and learns of the deception, she turns in rage and grief to Joey, has a one-night affair and only afterward begins to understand and love the man she has married.
		What lifts "The Most Happy Fella" to dramatic art are the three-dimensional characters.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117916344?categoryid=33&cs=1 (636 words)

	Record: University Opera does Broadway
		Jolly Stewart, director of the Washington University Opera, said The Most Happy Fella is one of the most vocally challenging Broadway musicals and points out that the role of Tony usually requires an operatically trained baritone.
		Compounding the difficulty for most Broadway-style companies is the wide-ranging score, which includes close to 30 numbers and is liberally sprinkled with arias, recitatives, duets, canons, choral numbers, dances, instrumental interludes and folk hymns.
		The Most Happy FellaWho: Washington University OperaWhat: Broadway musical by Frank LoesserWhen: 7 p.m.
	record.wustl.edu /news/page/normal/1534.html (807 words)

	The Most Happy Fella
		After receiving her photograph, he feels he is in love with her and wants to marry her ("I'm a Most Happy Fella").
		Rosabella has asked him, in exchange, for one of his pictures, but being middle-aged and not too attractive, he is afraid to send it for fear of losing her.
		When Tony sees Rosabella his face glows with happiness, and he addresses her with such tenderness that Rosabella cannot summon the courage to tell him she is leaving.
	www.theatrehistory.com /american/musical021.html (821 words)

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		The Most Happy Fella · cached · Review from the Daily Egyptian, The Southern Illinois University at Carbondale's student-run newspaper.
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		Complete Works of The Most Happy Fella · The recording information, track list, timings and cast for JAY's The Most Happy Fella with the last recorded work of the now deceased Louis Quilico.
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	The Most Happy Fella
		THE MOST HAPPY FELLA is one of those pleasant surprises that comes to the Music Circus tent every so often.
		THE MOST HAPPY FELLA is set in California's Napa Valley in the late 1920s.
		THE MOST HAPPY FELLA plays at the Music Circus through Sunday, July 25, 1999.
	www.sacnews.net /sacstage/fella.html (730 words)

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		While most colleges and universities do pay a licensing fee to ASCAP and BMI, the licenses are very narrow in terms of what’s covered by that fee.
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	Open Directory - Arts: Performing Arts: Theatre: Musicals: M: Most Happy Fella, The (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Complete Works of The Most Happy Fella - The recording information, track list, timings and cast for JAY's The Most Happy Fella with the last recorded work of the now deceased Louis Quilico.
		Frank Loesser's The Most Happy Fella - Plot synopsis and character descriptions for Most Happy Fella, The, including voice part, dancing difficulty and summaries for each character.
		The Most Happy Fella - Review from the Daily Egyptian, The Southern Illinois University at Carbondale's student-run newspaper.
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	`MOST HAPPY FELLA' OPENING SET FOR PAVILION'S STAGE ON FRIDAY COMMONWEALTH MUSICAL STAGE IS BEGINNING ITS SIXTH YEAR OF ...
		It should be a most happy event for managing director Jeff Meredith and the staff of the Commonwealth Musical Stage when the curtain goes up at Pavilion on the Broadway musical ``Most Happy Fella'' Friday evening.
		Meredith is firm in his belief that ``Most Happy Fella,'' Frank Loesser's 1956 Broadway offering, will be another crowd pleaser.
		Instead of song and dance numbers strung together with a loose plot, ``Most Happy Fella'' is a story told through the songs and underlying music which is used throughout.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1996/vp960124/01230108.htm (678 words)

	Theatre Mirror Reviews - "The Most Happy Fella"
		The final show of The Players 93rd season is Frank Loesser's "The Most Happy Fella", the musical version of the 1924 Pulitzer prize winning play, "They Knew What They Wanted" by Sidney Howard.
		Most of the show is an operetta so the acting must been very strong to carry the message of the show.
		So for a fantastic evening of entertainment be sure to catch, "The Most Happy Fella" at Barker Playhouse.
	www.theatermirror.com /tmhftpta.htm (1027 words)

	The Most Happy Fella (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		And because it was a simpler time, and because there's "happy" in the title, everything gets put back together by the rousing finale.
		Gilfry is in splendid voice, especially in the haunting "Joey, Joey, Joey" and "Don't Cry." Barzee is sweetly touching in her opening "Somebody, Somewhere" and "Happy to Make Your Acquaintance," when she first sees Tony as the man she fell in love with through the mail.
		If it was a simpler time, it was also a less politically correct time, with Loesser doing exhaustive research on "Italian dialect" for lyrical accuracy, racial stereotyping, happy paisanos (earlier braceros) in the vineyards, and sexism and ageism rampant.
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	Barn Theatre: E-Sheet 74-8
		ITSA THE JOLLIEST-A GUY IN-A TOWN-A! Auditions for "The Most Happy Fella", the timeless and classic American musical by Frank Loesser, will be held at The Barn Theatre in Montville, NJ on Saturday, March 9th from 1:00pm to 4:00pm and on Sunday, March 10th from 7:00pm to 10:00pm.
		"The Most Happy Fella" is the heart-warming story of an aging, shy and self-deprecating Italian vineyard owner Tony, living in Napa Valley, California, and the San Francisco waitress Rosabella, whom Tony courts by mail and ultimately wins through his sincerity.
		"The Most Happy Fella" is a jewel of the American musical theatre that has been described as "a musical operetta" — it’s famous numbers include "Standing On The Corner," "Happy To Make Your Acquaintance," "Big D," "Somebody, Somewhere" and "Joey, Joey, Joey." Performances will be May 17 through June 1, 2002.
	www.barntheatre.org /esheet74-8.html (1122 words)

	Seattle Weekly - arts: The most happy fetish
		In any case, musicals excel at fetishizing the American West, so a certain macho tension always exists between audience and actor, hero and heroine: No one is ever quite sure why an all-American man's man knows anything about jazz squares.
		The cowboys in Frank Loesser's The Most Happy Fella aren't cowboys, exactly; they're ranch hands, which means they don't wear chaps.
		Most of the show takes place in the sun-dappled valleys of Napa, which is perhaps part of the problem.
	www.seattleweekly.com /features/0211/arts-jensen.shtml (440 words)

	Stephen_schwartz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		I've bought this album and am very pleased, because most of theses tunes are originals...
		Surely one of the more unlikely sources for a musical was Studs Terkel's 1972 book that compiled interviews of American working people discussing their jobs and what they liked and disliked about them.
		Great Collection of Broadways greatest Songs : This Collection was perfectly made it has almost all the most famous Broadway songs on this 5 cd set.
	music.mysic.com /Artist/Stephen_Schwartz (1340 words)

	The 5th Avenue Theatre - 2001-2002 Season - The Most Happy Fella
		Loesser could have walked straight out of Guys and Dolls, one of his most popular shows: he loved slang, smoked too much, favored dark suits and purple ties, and was what polite people might call "excitable." His famous thirst for words was quenched by a favorite hobby: reading dictionaries-especially slang dictionaries.
		In 1956, The Most Happy Fella opened on Broadway; its magnificent score revealed the true breadth and depth of Loesser's talents.
		His mind was always searching for something new and interesting." Fella alone, for example, is a divergent and satisfying score of the highest caliber, containing brash Broadway show tunes, Italian arias, rousing anthems and romantic ballads.
	www.5thavenuetheatre.org /archive/a_mhf_loesser.shtml (882 words)

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	The Most Happy Fella (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		When I was a moppet my earliest memory of the concept of live theatre was a 1956 I Love Lucy episode in which the Ricardos and Mertzes attend a Broadway show and try to squeeze into two theatre seats.
		During the melee, we hear selections from Most Happy Fella, Frank Loesser's then-current musical hit.
		It's true that the ending is happy and that Loesser excised the play's heavier political issues, but the piece stands apart from typical Broadway uplift from its era.
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	Most Happy Fella
		In Napa, the townsfolk are delighted for Tony when the mail brings him a photograph of Rosabella (The Most Happy Fella - none more so than happy-go-lucky Herman who can only watch the girls go by (Standing on the Corner).
		Fearful of losing Rosabella, the ageing Tony secretly sends her a photograph of his departing Foreman, the handsome young Joe, and despite recriminations from his sister Marie, a proposal of marriage.
		Rosabella is thrilled by Cleo's arrival and touched by Tony's kindness in sending for her.
	www.nodanw.com /shows_m/most_happy_fella.htm (761 words)

	Talkin' Broadway - Sound Advice: 9/24/00
		On May 3, 1956, Frank Loesser’s musical The Most Happy Fella opened at the Imperial Theatre.
		Despite the competition, The Most Happy Fella was a hit, and one which defies easy categorization.
		The Most Happy Fella contains several songs which became popular hits, including “Big D” and “Standin’ on the Corner” (which, along with "Ooh, My Feet," was actually cut from Guys and Dolls.) Loesser’s music demonstrates his remarkable range.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /sound/sept2400.html (754 words)

	Aisle Say (Seattle): THE MOST HAPPY FELLA
		I fear that Frank Loesser's 1956 musical about an unlikely romance between an older man and a younger woman, set in the Napa valley wine country, is in danger of being consigned to the theatre history section, where groundbreaking, much admired shows are enshrined but never seen.
		This production of "The Most Happy Fella" is one of those wonderful surprises where not only is the show much better than you expect, but gratifying in ways you never would have thought possible.
		Yes, there are many elements in this show that belong to a particular period of our history, but it seems much less dated to me than many shows only ten or fifteen years old.
	www.aislesay.com /WA-FELLA.html (798 words)

	The Most Happy Fella (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		If Frank Loesser's The Most Happy Fella lacks the bubbly perfection of his Guys and Dolls, and the razor-sharp fizz of his How To Succeed..., its unashamedly romantic score makes it one of the most emotionally moving musicals of all time.
		Although The Most Happy Fella has sometimes been labeled a mass of manipulative sentiment, in the right hands Loesser's uncompromising portrait of loneliness and need can be a startling, gut-wrenching experience.
		Of all the cast, Courtney Stanford understood most what was needed and gave it everything she had as Rosabella's friend Cleo.
	www.oobr.com /top/volSeven/eleven/1105fella.html (547 words)

	Talkin' Broadway Regional News & Reviews: Los Angeles - "Most Happy Fella" - 11/25/01
		The real surprise, then, is that Rosabella responds to the revelation of Tony's deception not by proclaiming her love for her letter-writing Cyrano, but by despairing that she has been duped into promising herself to a man she finds physically repulsive.
		The score of The Most Happy Fella veers, at times, toward opera, and the story does as well.
		Rodney Gilfry is Joe, the hunk whose photograph reaches Rosabella, and when he opens his mouth to sing, he sets loose a warm operatic baritone which surely would have wooed Rosabella had Tony somehow misappropriated his voice, rather than his image.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /regional/la/la31.html (752 words)

	KDHX Theatre Review - The Most Happy Fella (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Washington University Opera presented performances of Frank Loesser's 1950s musical, The Most Happy Fella last weekend [March 21 and 22, 2003].
		The Most Happy Fella, based on the play They Knew What They Wanted by Sidney Howard, took five years to adapt into a musical.
		The story concerns an aging, Italian immigrant winery owner, Tony, who sees a waitress in a restaurant during a trip to San Francisco, and initiates a by-mail romance.
	www.kdhx.org /reviews/most_happy_fella.html (666 words)

	The Most Happy Fella (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		From legendary composer Frank (GUYS AND DOLLS) Loesser comes "the most deliriously musical of musicals - packed with snappy Broadway tunes, exquisite love songs, passionate arias, exuberant trios.
		Set in California's Napa Valley, circa 1920, THE MOST HAPPY FELLA opened on Broadway in 1956.
		Tony, an aging Italian vineyard owner, proposes marriage by mail to a young San Francisco waitress, Rosabella, by sending a photograph of his handsome foreman instead of himself.
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	Tickets \| NYC Opera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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