Book By Joseph Dougherty
Music by Stephen Flaherty
Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
Set in the golden age of live television, My Favorite Year is a warm, fast-paced musical comedy about show business, hero worship, and the messy truth behind larger-than-life legends. Young writer Benjy Stone is thrilled to be working on King Kaiser’s Comedy Cavalcade, one of television’s biggest comedy shows. But when he is assigned to look after fading movie star Alan Swann before a live broadcast, Benjy’s dream job quickly turns into a frantic adventure.
Swann is charming, reckless, hilarious, and completely unpredictable. As Benjy tries to keep his childhood idol on track, he discovers that the man behind the movie-star image is more complicated than he ever imagined. Filled with backstage chaos, big personalities, romance, family complications, and old Hollywood glamour, My Favorite Year celebrates the people who make audiences laugh while reminding us that even our heroes are human.