...Michael Buchler Frank Loesser Guys and Dolls Broadway direct modulation Abstract We often think of direct stepwise modulation as a crude way to convey a sense of intensification. Certainly that is how many popular composers have exploited the device, but this article examines its...

... that are infinitely revivable without revision such as Guys and Dolls (1950), My Fair Lady (1956), and West Side Story (1957). Bells Are Ringing Burnett Carol cast albums Davis Bette Duke Vernon Fade Out Fade In Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Gray Dolores...

.... This chapter looks at the stars of “vehicles”—Bing Crosby, Betty Grable, Elvis Presley and the failures of Kate Smith and Mariah Carey, and the frustrations of Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli, and Kate Smith. Guys and Dolls (1955) as an example of four varieties of musical performance: stardom (Brando...

...Joe Mankiewicz makes legendary films such as All About Eve, Julius Caesar, and Guys and Dolls during the 1950s. Tom's family moves to New York where Tom attends a private school on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Tom has his first drink at eleven with Humphrey Bogart on a film set. Joe finishes...

...This chapter turns to Miami and discusses the role of Cubans and Cuban popular culture in the city. It examines the social clubs Círculo Cubano and Juventud Cubana, and the nightclubs Tropicana and Barra Guys and Dolls, whose events and activities illustrate the early emergence of “Cuban Miami...

...Guys and Dolls opened on Broadway in 1950 to almost unanimous praise. The reception of its opening in London in 1953 was more equivocal. This chapter examines from a London perspective what has been widely viewed as a musical uniquely based on a Broadway iconography created...

... intend. The musical contractor—something like the casting director and paymaster for the musicians—can weigh in with demands of his or her own. And then, there’s the producer. Billy Rose’s Jumbo Can-Can Candide Carnival Chappell Music Chelsea Music Company Follies Guys and Dolls Gypsy Li’l...

...Two 1950s classics by Frank Loesser, Guys and Dolls (1950) and The Most Happy Fella (1956), remain the toast of Broadway in the 1990s. Even those who love to hate Broadway musicals make an exception for Guys and Dolls and consider this show one...

...), and Floyd Collins (1996), recasting the ideology of operatic vocality in the same vocal space as music hall patter, pop voice, and folk singing. The chapter then listens to more popular styles including crooning, belt, and rock voice in Guys and Dolls (1950) and Passing...

... the Broadway musical for British audiences. Arts Council of Great Britain Committee for Encouragement of Music and the Arts CEMA revivals subsidized of American shows subsidized theatre De Mille Agnes arts subsidy Brando Marlon Chekhov Anton Gunter John Guys and Dolls 1950 Guys and Dolls 1953 first...

... and Dolls, with not one but two exactly matched couples, their two stories ingeniously intertwined. Guys and Dolls Runyon Damon Feuer Cy Lindsay Howard Loesser Frank Martin Ernest Rodgers and Hammerstein Winchell Walter Alda Robert Bigley Isabel Blaine Vivian Burrows Abe Levene Sam...

... will, the reeds and brass as well. ASCAP As Thousands Cheer Brigadoon Camelot Casablanca Chappell Music Everybody’s Welcome Funny Girl Gigi Girl Crazy Guys and Dolls Gypsy I Love Lucy My Fair Lady My Romance Pajama Game Princess Theatre shows Rosalie Rose-Marie South Pacific Tams-Witmark...

... Blondes Golden Boy Greenwillow Guys and Dolls Gypsy Hello Dolly! Here’s Love High Button Shoes Irma La Douce La Cage aux Folles Mame Mary Poppins Me and Juliet Milk and Honey My Fair Lady Oklahoma! Pippin Sweeney Todd Tams-Witmark West Side Story Wonderful Town It all starts...

... in “Guys and Dolls” is more soundly based on human frailty, instead of human rascality. “Joey” is brilliant; “Guys” is heart-warming—and each show is the best of its kind. The comparison between these two shows is significant, inasmuch as it attempts to answer another question: were audiences more ready...

...), Call Me Madam (1953), Kiss Me, Kate (1953), and Guys and Dolls (1955). As Hollywood pursued this semi-purist approach, it developed a set of Commandments for adaptations from the stage, adhered to more often than not: I: Thou shalt cast by talent rather than...

...This chapter examines the female duet in the formally integrated musical that was typical in the 1950s: West Side Story, Guys and Dolls, and Wonderful Town. In the 1950s, most musicals used the format of a “book musical,” where the story, which typically followed...