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#GUYSandDOLLS comes to the Savoy Theatre from the 10th December for a strictly limited season!
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]
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.
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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.
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 . 46th Street Theatre, New York 24 November 1950 (1194 perfs) London Coliseum, 28th May 1953 National Theatre, London - 9 March 1982
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.
