| The Happy Time | |
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| Music | John Kander |
| Lyrics | Fred Ebb |
| Book | N. Richard Nash |
| Basis | Samuel A. Taylor's play The Happy Time |
| Productions | 1967 Los Angeles 1968 Broadway 1980 Connecticut 1983 Lyric Opera of Kansas City 2007 New York reading |
The Happy Time is a musical with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and a book by N. Richard Nash loosely based on a 1950 hit Broadway play, The Happy Time by Samuel A. Taylor, which was in turn based on stories by Robert Fontaine. The story had also been made into a 1952 film version.
The original 1967 Los Angeles and 1968 Broadway productions were directed and choreographed by Gower Champion, who won Tony Awards in each category.