HAPPINESS Rehearsal Photos

Photos by Paul Kolnik

HAPPINESS Production Photos

Photos by Paul Kolnik

1 hour, 50 minutes, no intermission.

HAPPINESS, a new musical about a disparate group of New Yorkers caught on a subway train under unusual circumstances, was commissioned and developed by Lincoln Center Theater. The production reunited director-choreographer Susan Stroman and book writer John Weidman, whose last LCT collaboration was the Tony Award winning Best Musical Contact and marked the LCT debuts of composer Scott Frankel and lyricist Michael Korie.

HAPPINESS unfolds the stories of a dozen or so New Yorkers stuck in the morning rush of a stalled subway car and required by the spectral trainman to recall and re-enact 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.

• Ana Maria Andricain , Fred Applegate , Sebastian Arcelus , Holly Ann Butler , Miguel Cervantes , Patrick Cummings , Janet Dickinson , Hunter Foster , Joanna Gleason , Alan H. Green , Samantha Maza , James Moye , Alessa Neeck , Ken Page , Robert Petkoff , Jenny Powers , Eric Santagata , Robb Sapp , Alexander Scheitinger , Lina Silver , Phyllis Somerville , Pearl Sun , Idara Victor , Matt Wall

• Book by

  John Weidman

• Music by

  Scott Frankel

• Lyrics by

  Michael Korie

• Direction and Choreography by
  

  Susan Stroman

• Sets by

  Thomas Lynch

• Costumes by

  William Ivey Long

• Lighting By

  Donald Holder

• Sound by

  Scott Lehrer

• Orchestrations by

  Bruce Coughlin

• Music Direction by

  Eric Stern

• Projection Designer

  Joshua Frankel

• Casting

  Tara Rubin Casting

• Associate Director/Choreographer

  Joanne Manning