Shows · Guys and Dolls
Guys and Dolls
Opened 1950
1,200 performances
Musical, Golden Age
Tony Award for Best Musical, 1951
Guys and Dolls, subtitled A Musical Fable of Broadway, is the album containing the original Broadway cast recording of the 1950 musical Guys and Dolls. It was released by Decca Records early in the next year.
"A Musical Fable of Broadway": the show's own period marketing line.
- Music
- Frank Loesser
- Lyrics
- Frank Loesser
- Book
- Abe Burrows & Jo Swerling
Productions5 on Broadway
Songs26 songs
Luck Be a Lady, re Rockin, A Bushel and a Peck, Fugue for Tinhorns, Follow the Fold, The Oldest Established, I’ll Know, Adelaide’s Lament, Guys and Dolls, If I Were a Bell, My Time of Day, I’ve Never Been in Love Before, Take Back Your Mink, More I Cannot Wish You, Sue Me, Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat, Marry the Man Today, Opening, Runyonland, Havana, Luck, Be a Lady, The Crap Game Dance, fabulous, musical champ, blistered, best and most exciting
Recordings 16 recordings
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Guys and Dolls matched on title alone: a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
John Chapman in the Daily News quoted a line from Guys and Dolls that summed up the occasion: “It all seems a horrible dream.”
Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 130Something wrong here? Correct a field or report the problem. Every change is recorded in public under the contributor licence.