Happy Days Musical
Official Site for the Happy Days musical show: theater information, tickets, discounts, reviews, cast, and photos.

We are pleased to announce that Happy Days: A New Musical has been published by Samuel French!  To purchase the script and inquire about performance licensing at your local theater, please contact Samuel French HERE.

By JANE HOLAHAN, Staff Writer
THEATER REVIEW
Watch out Henry Winkler, Joey Sorge is giving you a run for your money.
Sorge plays Fonzie in “Happy Days — A New Musical,” which opened Tuesday night at the Hershey Theatre.
Written by Garry Marshall (creator of the original TV show), with music by Paul Williams (who wrote a slew [...]

By Sally Friedman, For The Bulletin
The music was always there. Always. But not even Paul Williams himself can explain exactly how or why.
The legendary composer’s presence will be felt once again as the new production of Happy Days takes to the stage at the Academy of Music tonight through Sunday.
During a recent phone [...]

By Rita Charleston For the Times
Goodbye, gray skies; hello, blue. Happy Days - A New Musical will make its Philadelphia premiere for six days at the Academy of Music, starting March 24.
Based on the hit television series that debuted in 1974, the musical reintroduces the Cunninghams of Milwaukee, one of America’s best-loved families.
The 1950s time [...]

by KYW’s Nancy Griffin
The Acamdemy of Music presents “Happy Days - A New Musical,” from March 24th to 29th.
Matt Wolf (right), the Kimmel Center’s managing director of theatrical presentations, says the musical reintroduces one of America’s best loved families — the Cunninghams:
“This is based on the hit Paramount Pictures Television series, ‘Happy Days.’ This [...]

By Chris Silk - Naples Daily News
There won’t be any “jump the shark” jokes during this review, even if the touring production of “Happy Days: A New Musical” opens the door by trotting that all-too-predictable gag out for laughs on the Philharmonic stage. Truth be told, this fluffy, high-energy retread of the beloved TV show [...]

By Jonathan Foerster - Naples Daily News
Garry Marshall always wanted to be in theater.
When he was first starting out, he even tried to write a few plays. But nothing seemed to stick.
“Nobody every offered me a job,” Marshall says from his Los Angeles office. “But the TV people let me in.”
Now, a half-century later Marshall [...]

By Charles Runnells - news-press.com
Garry Marshall is famous for his Midas touch in the TV biz.
In live theater?
Not so much.
The sit-com producer’s first attempt at writing a play, “The Roast,” debuted on Broadway in 1980. The show didn’t just bomb - it got burned alive.
“I’m a trivia question!” the excitable Marshall says in a phone [...]

By Roger Bull - jacksonville.com
The year is 1959, the location is Milwaukee and the whole crowd is back at Arnold’s Drive-In: Richie, Ralph, Potsie, Joanie, Chachi and, of course, The Fonz.
“Happy Days č A New Musical” opened Tuesday night at the Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts. It runs through Sunday.
It’s enjoyable but certainly not [...]

SCHENECTADY — It’s intermission at Tuesday night’s performance of ‘Happy Days’ as I start this review, and I am in suspense! Unbeknownst to the Dialtones, the high school male quartet upstage singing the theme song in close harmony, The Fonz is preparing to mount his beloved Harley, Dolores, downstage and leave Milwaukee for good! Talk [...]

By Staff Reports
Coming to the Philharmonic Center for the Arts:
* “Happy Days — A New Musical”
This show, based on the hit television series, is coming in March and the musical reintroduces the Cunningham family and Milwaukee circa 1959. This time capsule is complete with familiar friends Richie, Potsie, Ralph Malph, Joanie and Chachi, Pinky Tuscadero [...]

By JOHN COULBOURN — Sun Media
The gang’s all back at Arnold’s in Happy Days: A New Musical. The stage show was written by Garry Marshall, the creator of the original TV series.
TORONTO - For fans of Garry Marshall’s oeuvre, recess is about to get a lot more lively.
Back in his glory days, Marshall, the populist [...]

MICHAEL POSNER  - Globe and Mail
If nothing else, give Garry Marshall credit for determination. Five years ago, he had the notion of turning his wildly successful seventies TV sitcom Happy Days into a Broadway musical. Knowing the enormous risks involved, he did the first workshops at his own venue, the 135-seat Falcon Theatre, in Burbank, Calif., run [...]

Richard Ouzounian, Theatre Critic
When you talk to Garry Marshall over the phone, you hear the kind of straight-from-the-shoulder stuff you’d expect from the champion of everyday people.
He’s the guy behind such mega-hits as Laverne and Shirley, Mork and Mindy and Pretty Woman. He’s 74 now, and has enjoyed a career that has spanned more than [...]

Fonzie, the Cunninghams and the gang from Arnold’s hit the stage for a musical set right here in Milwaukee

Ahwatukee Foothills News - Phoenix,AZ,USA
Original cast members and VIP’s from the iconic TV show, Happy Days, will be arriving in Tempe for the debut of the musical stage version of the hit TV show.  Producer/writer/director Garry Marshall, Anson Williams (Potsie) and Don Most (Ralph Malph) are among the noted celebrities who will be in the [...]

by Kerry Lengel
The Arizona Republic
A double dose of nostalgia is on tap for theatergoers in the latest big-budget musical to visit ASU Gammage. Happy Days - A New Musical taps into the warm fuzzies that Baby Boomers feel for the classic sitcom from the ’70s, along with the enduring appeal of sock hops, drive-ins and [...]

Hollywood producer Garry Marshall has had a number of requests to turn his hit television series, “Happy Days,” into a major motion picture.
But Marshall decided to go in the opposite direction. Instead he wrote a musical about Richie, the Fonz, Joanie, Chachi and the rest of the gang.
“I always thought the characters were special - [...]

Lindsey Halfhill ‘10
Queen Creek High School, 
Queen Creek Arizona
Arthur Fonzarelli, more commonly known as “The Fonz,” was an unforgettable character of the 70’s. Now, thirty-four years since the television show’s debut, an equally unforgettable actor is being called to take on the role in the Happy Days musical. However, it’s not an easy task to [...]