“Most Happy in Concert,” Daniel Fish’s reimagining of a musical by Frank Loesser from 1956, is all songs, no story—at least not Loesser’s story, vcunningham writes.
O.K., I get it now, how the looseness and provisionality of the hot months lend themselves to an atmosphere of experimentation onstage. As the story goes, an ambitious Eugene O’Neill showed up one summer in Provincetown with a case full of plays, hoping to put his yawps up before an audience. Sky and sea and so much green make everything seem possible, I guess.
Loesser squarely represents the Tin Pan Alley-influenced, crowd-pleasing mainstream of mid-century American stage entertainment.
The play opens on a nearly naked stage, the pulleys and lighting rigs right there to see. There’s a big, almost sculptural curtain of tinsel in fat gold ribbons at center stage. The singer-actors file out, not toward the center but to a brick-walled corner at extreme upstage left. It’s a part of the theatre that would normally be way backstage, but here there’s no back curtain: Fish has made the Main Stage at Williamstown its own exoskeleton.
Beyond this novel—if somewhat unvaried—rendition of the songs, though, what I’ll remember about “Most Happy” is the staging. The figures who are huddled as far as possible from the audience at the outset of the show are harbingers of other refusals and curiosities. Sometimes the performers come closer to the customary downstage area, singing in a suggestively sexual cluster.
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