Guys and Dolls
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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.
- Opened
- 1950
- Performances
- 1,200
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Golden Age
Won the Tony Award for Best Musical, 1951.
Productions5 on Broadway
| 1950 | 46th Street Theatre Original. November 24, 1950 · George S. Kaufman | 1,200 performances · 5 Tony wins |
| 1955 | City Center Revival. April 20, 1955 · Philip Mathias | 31 performances |
| 1976 | Broadway Theatre Revival. July 21, 1976 · Billy Wilson | 239 performances |
| 1992 | Martin Beck Theatre Revival. April 14, 1992 · Jerry Zaks | 1,143 performances |
| 2009 | Nederlander Theatre Revival. March 1, 2009 · Des McAnuff | 121 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 16 albums held
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Guys and Dolls matched on title alone: a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
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29 passages naming Guys and Dolls, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Zaks, Jerry Anything Goes Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, A Guys and Dolls La Cage aux Folles book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p387
Guys and Dolls was the fifth longest-running Broadway musical of the Fifties. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p172
Most shows were lighhearted in nature, and it’s notable the critics often used such words as carnival, jubilee, fandango, hoedown, haymaker, and festival to describe not just a particular song or dance sequence but also to characterize their take-away, overall impressions of the musicals they reviewed. But if fun was t… book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p2
The musical has been revived on Broadway six times, with three productions by the New York City Center Light Opera Company over a period of eleven years. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p94
The lyrics of all the songs written for the production (both used and unused) are included in The Complete Lyrics of Frank Loesser . book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p96
Songs written for, but not used in, the production were “Shango,” “Nathan’s Problem,” “It Feels Like Forever,” and “I Come A-Running.” book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p97
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