Guys and Dolls

It is based upon "The Idyll Of Miss Sarah Brown", a short story by Damon Runyon.

Table of contents

1 The Musical numbers 2 Broadway Production 3 London Production 4 Goldwyn movie production 1955 5 Revivals

The Musical numbers

• "Fugue for Tinhorns" (Opening trio: "I got a horse right here...")
• "Follow the Fold" (the Mission hymn)
• "The Oldest Established" ("...Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York")
• "I'll Know" ("...when my love comes along")
• "A Bushel and a Peck" (not in the film)
• "Pet Me Poppa" (a production number for Adelaide added for the film)
• "Adelaide's Lament" ("A person could develop a cold")
• (Havana dance number)
• "Guys and Dolls" ("When you see a gent paying all kinds of rent/ For a flat that would flatten the Taj Mahal...")
• "If I Were a Bell"
• "More I Cannot Wish You" (a sentimental Irish song, not in the film)
• "My Time of Day" (a bluesy chromatic ballad, not in the film)
• "I've Never Been in Love Before" (not in the film)
• "A Woman In Love" (added for the film)
• "Take Back Your Mink" (the classic night club production number for Adelaide)
• "Adelaide" (added for the film)
• "Sue Me" (Duet)
• (Crapshooters' ballet)
• "Luck Be a Lady"
• "Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat" (production number for the gamblers at the Mission
• "Marry the Man Today" (not in the film)

The show opened at the 46th Street Theatre on November 24th, 1950.

CAST:

• Robert Alda as Sky Masterson
• Vivian Blaine as Miss Adelaide
• Sam Levene as Nathan Detroit
• Isabel Bigley as Sister Sarah Brown
• Pat Rooney as Arvide Abernathy
• B. S. Pully as Big Jule
• Stubby Kaye as Nicely-Nicely Johnson
• Tom Pedi as Harry The Horse
• Johnny Silver as Benny Southstreet

• Marlon Brando as Sky Masterson
• Vivian Blaine as Miss Adelaide
• Frank Sinatra as Nathan Detroit
• Jean Simmons as Sister Sarah Brown
• Stubby Kaye as Nicely-Nicely Johnson
• Johnny Silver as Benny Southstreet

• A revival in 1976 featured an all-black cast and Motown-style musical arrangements by Danny Holgate and Horace Ott.

• A 1992 revival, starring Josie de Guzman as Sarah Brown and Peter Gallagher as Sky Masterson, but with Nathan Lane and Faith Prince stealing the show as the perennially-engaged Nathan Detroit and Miss Adelaide, ran for nearly three years (1143 performances) and rewrote the standard for Guys and Dolls, with a crack orchestra (Edward Strauss, conductor) that outperformed the original pit band. The recording is a rival for definitive with the (re-mastered) original cast recording.

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