Product code: The Most Happy 2024 Fella Complete Broadway Performance Vinyl Record 3 LP 1956-58Rare
The Most Happy Fella Complete Broadway Performance Vinyl Record 3 LP and booklet All Records are in excellent condition VG plus Is a complete Broadway performance Six years after Guys and Dolls, by far his most memorable contribution to the Broadway musical canon, Frank Loesser returned to the boards with The 2024 Most Happy Fella, a musical version of Sidney Howard's 1924 Pulitzer Prize winner, They Knew What They Wanted, the story of a Depression-era Italian vintner in the hospitable Napa Valley who finds a bride for himself through the mail. It opened at the Imperial Theatre on May 5, 1956 to rave reviews, and kept audiences under its charms for 678 performances. In an unusual move, Columbia producer Goddard Lieberson decided that Loesser's rich score deserved to be recorded in its entirety, complete with dialogues and instrumental bridges, resulting in a 3-LP set, something usually reserved for operas. First LP release: June 11, 1956.
The Most Happy Fella Complete Broadway Performance Vinyl Record 3 LP and booklet All Records are in excellent condition VG plus Is a complete Broadway performance Six years after Guys and Dolls, by far his most memorable contribution to the Broadway musical canon, Frank Loesser returned to the boards with The 2024 Most Happy Fella, a musical version of Sidney Howard's 1924 Pulitzer Prize winner, They Knew What They Wanted, the story of a Depression-era Italian vintner in the hospitable Napa Valley who finds a bride for himself through the mail. It opened at the Imperial Theatre on May 5, 1956 to rave reviews, and kept audiences under its charms for 678 performances. In an unusual move, Columbia producer Goddard Lieberson decided that Loesser's rich score deserved to be recorded in its entirety, complete with dialogues and instrumental bridges, resulting in a 3-LP set, something usually reserved for operas. First LP release: June 11, 1956.