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Happiness

In this unique and touching musical from the accomplished musical team of Frankel and Korie, a dozen New Yorkers, stuck on a subway car, realize they have died and must relive a single memory to take with them into eternity.

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Description

  • Full Length Musical
  • Dramatic Comedy
  • 105 minutes

  • Time Period: New Millennium/21st Century
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Cautions: Alcohol, Strong Language

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre

  • Accolades:
  • Nominee! Four Outer Critics Circle Awards including Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical and Outstanding New Score (2009)
Happiness tells the stories of a dozen harried New Yorkers stuck in the morning rush hour on a stalled subway car, where they are required by the spectral trainman to recall and reenact the happiest moment in their lives before they can continue their travels... and travails.

Happiness celebrates those fleeting moments in everyday lives – typically unanticipated, largely overlooked, always ephemeral – that upon reflection become people’s fondest memories.
REVIEWS:

"110 minutes of flawless, nonstop entertainment. It amazes. It is the work of sometime Sondheim librettist John Weidman, with music and lyrics by Grey Gardens creators Scott Frankel and Michael Korie and direction and choreography by the eminent Susan Stroman, which adds up to as good a pedigree as one could hope for in a new musical."

 John Simon, Bloomberg.com

"Happiness has a jazzy score and clever lyrics, thanks to composer Scott Frankel and lyricist Michael Korie, who also did Grey Gardens. They have a gift for understanding the subtle contradictions in people and exposing the vulnerability beneath a polished exterior."

 Fern Seigel, The Huffington Post

"This highly imaginative production moves seamlessly, reeling in its audience in the first five minutes and never letting it off the hook... one of the unexpected delights of the waning theatrical season."

 Frederick M. Winship, United Press International

"Chock-full of wonderful, original, thought-provoking characters, ideas and songs. It’s one of the best musicals of the last 10 years to not get recorded. If a musical plays in the forest but nobody makes an original cast recording, did it really play? (In all seriousness, a Happiness cast recording must happen.)"

 Jennifer Ashley Tepper, Playbill.com

Premiere Production: Happiness premiered off-Broadway at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre on March 30, 2009. Directed by Susan Stroman, the production featured Fred Applegate, Sebastian Arcelus, Miguel Cervantes, Hunter Foster, Joanna Gleason, Ken Page, Robert Petkoff, Jenny Powers, Phyllis Somerville and Pearl Sun.

Characters

  • Casting: 11M, 8F

Available Material

Name Price
Perusal Material Shipped immediately. This is optional.

1 x Libretto
1 x Vocal Book

$24.00
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Happiness tells the stories of a dozen harried New Yorkers stuck in the morning rush hour on a stalled subway car, where they are required by the spectral trainman to recall and reenact the happiest moment in their lives before they can continue their travels... and travails. Happiness celebrates those fleeting moments in everyday lives – typically unanticipated, largely overlooked, always ephemeral – that upon reflection become people’s fondest memories.

PLEASE NOTE: The LIBRETTO is available for SALE ONLY and is not available for hire as part of the Rehearsal Material set. It must be purchased separately.

$24.95
Pre-Production Pack Shipped upon receipt of a signed License Agreement and full payment of all invoices. This is optional.

1 x Vocal Book
1 x Piano-Vocal

$75.00
Rehearsal Material Shipped a minimum of 3 months before the last performance. This must be hired as a condition of the License to produce this show.

25 x Vocal Book
1 x Piano-Vocal Score

$450.00 +$135.00/pm
Orchestral Material Shipped a minimum of 1 month before the last performance. This is optional.

1 x Reed 1 - Flute, Piccolo, Alto Flute, Bass Flute, Chinese Flute, Clarinet & Alto Sax
1 x Reed 2 - Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Soprano Sax & Baritone Sax
1 x Horn
1 x Trumpet - doubling Flügelhorn
1 x Trombone
1 x Keyboard
1 x Guitar - Electric, Nylon String, Acoustic, Arch Top, Steel String, Mandolin, Banjo, Tenor Banjo
1 x Percussion - Drum Kit, Wood Block, Timbales, Toms, Mark Tree, Bell Tree, Bells, Timpani, Vibraphone, Finger Cymbal (D), Suspended Cymbal (with light chain), China Symbol, Triangle, Temple Block, Tam-tam, Crotales, Claves, Shaker, Ratchet, Tambourine (with skin), Cowbell, Slapstick, Sandblock
1 x Bass - Electric, Acoustic, Fretless Electric
1 x Full Score

$350.00 +$135.00/pm
Vocal Book 10 Pack Shipped a minimum of 1 month before the last performance. This is optional.

10 x Vocal Scores

$50.00 +$50.00/pm

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