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Guys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. It is based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" (1933) and "Blood Pressure", which are two short stories by Damon Runyon, [1][2] and also borrows characters and plot elements from other Runyon stories, such as "Pick the Winner". [3]
Guys & Dolls. The Bridge transforms for one of the greatest musicals of all time. It has more hit songs, more laughs and more romance than any show ever written. The seating is wrapped around the action while the immersive tickets transport you to the streets of Manhattan and the bars of Havana in the unlikeliest of love stories.
Guys and Dolls is a musical romantic comedy involving the unlikeliest of Manhattan pairings: a high-rolling gambler and a puritanical missionary, a showgirl dreaming of the straight-and-narrow and a crap game manager who is anything but.
24 lip 2024 · Right from the beginning of Frank Loesser’s masterpiece Guys & Dolls, we’re immersed in a world filled with lovable low-life gamblers who speak in a very particular New York vernacular. Frank Loesser developed the music and lyrics for the show, while Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows wrote the book.
Set in the colorful world of New York City in the mid 20th century, the romantic and funny “Guys And Dolls” is populated with gangsters and gamblers, missionary dolls and scantily clad showgirls, and is one of the great musical scores in the history of American theatre.
Guys and Dolls. A musical fable of Broadway in two acts based on a story and characters by Damon Runyon. Book by Abe Burrows and Jo Swerling: Music & Lyrics by Frank Loesser. A film version was produced by Samuel Goldwyn in 1955 with Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine, Jean Simmons and Marlon Brando.
7 mar 2022 · Considered by many to be the perfect musical comedy, Guys and Dolls ran for 1,200 performances when it opened on Broadway in 1950. It received nearly unanimous positive reviews from critics and won a bevy of awards, including Tony Awards, Drama Desks and Oliviers.
