![]() ![]() Originally scheduled for a staged production as part of the Bard SummerScape series in 2020, following workshops going back to 2018, it was postponed by the pandemic and emerged into public view for this three-night stand in denatured form, fully orchestrated but without scenery, costumes or movement. To be fair, “Most Happy in Concert” is very much a work in progress, easy to react to but difficult to assess. The original is a heart-lifting achievement the concert merely sucks its blood. ![]() ![]() That’s where “The Most Happy Fella,” the 1956 Frank Loesser musical on which the concert was based, takes place.īut however I tried to convince myself that despite their enormous differences, the two works, like the two locales, might both be beautiful, my ear told me no. It was useful to remember as I watched “ Most Happy in Concert,” the bizarre and fascinating 75-minute cantata that just finished a run here on Saturday evening, that the neatly cut lawn at Montgomery Place, the grand Hudson River estate where the show was performed, does not much resemble the vineyards of Napa Valley. ![]()
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