This fanlisting is for the musical Guys and Dolls.


Guys and Dolls is a musical, with the music and lyrics written by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, based on The Idyll Of Miss Sarah Brown, a short story by Damon Runyon. It also borrows characters and plot elements from other Runyon stories, most notably "Pick the Winner."


Revivals
Guys and Dolls has enjoyed many revivals, including a 1976 revival at The Broadway Theatre, which featured an all-black cast and Motown-style musical arrangements by Danny Holgate and Horace Ott, which was directed by Billy Wilson. It ran for 239 performances.

A 1982 London revival was directed by Richard Eyre and played at the Royal National Theatre's largest auditorium, the Olivier Theatre. The principals were Bob Hoskins (Nathan), Julia McKenzie (Miss Adelaide) Ian Charleson (Sky), and Julie Covington (Sarah).

A 1992 Broadway revival, directed by Jerry Zaks, played at the Martin Beck Theatre and ran for 1,143 performances. In 1995, a Las Vegas, Nevada production starred Jack Jones, Maureen McGovern and Frank Gorshin.

The 2005 West End revival opened at London's Piccadilly Theatre in June 2005 and closed in April 2007. This revival, directed by Michael Grandage, starred Ewan McGregor (Sky Masterson), Jane Krakowski (Miss Adelaide), and Douglas Hodge (Nathan Detroit)[3] American actors Patrick Swayze (2006) and Don Johnson (2007) appeared as Nathan Detroit after Douglas Hodge left.

According to playbill.com the 2005 West End production, which had been scheduled to begin previews on Broadway in February 2008, has been indefinitely postponed.



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