We hear USC athletic director Pat Haden is going to perform a role in the musical, “The Most Happy Fella,” next month at the on-campus Bing Theatre. USC bills it as a “heart-warming story of the aging, shy Napa Valley grape-grower Tony, who courts a San Francisco waitress through the mail. When she comes to marry him, she finds herself in an unexpectedly tumultuous drama of disappointment, sudden passion, and love.”
That means the title does not refer to a football coach who saves his job despite going 7-6 at one of the nation’s top schools.