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  Encyclopedia: Guys and Dolls
And one of the major pleasures of Guys and Dolls is having your expectations fulfilled, and the wit and style with which it happens.
The doll in question is Sergeant Sarah Brown of the Save-a-Soul Mission, a particularly unsuccessful evangelist (despite being played by the ever-radiant Jean Simmons) Sarah Brown is constantly buttoning and unbuttoning her blouse button, particularly in the presence of Marlon Brando, a habit that the greatest minds in psychoanalysis would fail to decipher.
The rest of the plot of Guys and Dolls is at this stage probably eminently predictable to the average moviegoer.
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 Guys and Dolls - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Guys and Dolls is a successful 1950 musical.
It had a long run on Broadway (1200 performances) and was filmed in 1955 starring Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra and Jean Simmons (debuted on November 3, 1955).
Guys and Dolls has been performed all over the globe.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guys_and_Dolls   (595 words)

  
 Guys and dolls
The doll factory, prominently touted in the April 26, 1890 issue of Scientific American, employed around 100 people, the men assembling the motors and the girls dressing the dolls, and initially the factory could not keep up with demand.
From around 1906 on a few dolls were advertised such as the Jenny Lind and the Primadona, and most notably the Arnolda or Arnoldia (it was spelled both ways) by Max Arthur Arnold of Germany.
The Rolfs have catalogued talking dolls up to the 1990s, but there is profuse illustration of the bodies and mechs of the earlier dolls of greatest appeal to phonograph collectors.
www.intertique.com /GuysAndDolls.htm   (712 words)

  
 Guys and Dolls   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Guys and Dolls is a major revival of the classic musical This production is produced by the Ambassador Theatre Group in association with the Donmar Warehouse's production team.
When the next 'doll' happens to be the neighbourhood missionary Sarah Brown, the stage is set for an evening of high-spirited entertainment.
Guys and Dolls Musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows.
www.londontheatreticketweb.co.uk /the_guysndolls.htm   (343 words)

  
 Guys and Dolls--Glossary
guy: In 1605, Guy Fawkes, a fanatical catholic, was part of a plot to blow up the English Houses of Parliament with gunpowder, since known as "The Gunpowder Plot".
Guy Fawkes Day has been celebrated in Britain ever since on the 5th of November, with bonfires and grotesque effigies of Guy Fawkes.
Guy Lombardo (1902-1977) was a popular band leader, who became known as "Mr New Year's Eve", leading his Royal Canadians at the Waldorf=Astoria Hotel every New Year's Eve from 1929 to 1976.
www.geocities.com /tf_mcq/theater/guys_and_dolls_glossary.html   (3463 words)

  
 Guys and Dolls   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
GUYS AND DOLLS, Based on a story and characters created by Damon Runyon.
Its chorus of colorfully named and clad gamblers and their chorine "dolls," fleeing disrespectability and the law, is only slightly less savory than the Salvation Army gang looking to convert them.
A fable Guys and Dolls is, and as naive as West Side Story (though more playfully so) in its depiction of New York street life.
www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/theater/97/08/21/GUYS_AND_DOLLS.html   (702 words)

  
 Guys and Dolls
She and Adelaide commiserate with each other on the problems of getting their guys to change their ways and decide the answer is to marry them first, which they do, and live happily ever after.
A beautiful doll of forthright manner and puritan outlook, under which lurks a vibrant personality glimpsed under the influence of several milkshakes laced with bacardi.
A very sharp guy who lives by his wits, which generally are no match for his adversaries.
www.nodanw.com /shows_g/guys_and_dolls.htm   (796 words)

  
 BBC - London - Entertainment - First night: Guys And Dolls
No wonder Guys And Dolls remains so enduringly popular, 55 years after it originally premiered there.
(Guys And Dolls is at the Piccadilly Theatre, Denman Street W1.
I saw Guys and Dolls last night and was amazed at the energy and drive from the cast.
www.bbc.co.uk /london/content/articles/2005/06/03/theatre_review_guysanddolls_feature.shtml   (1786 words)

  
 Guys and Dolls London theatre tickets and information
Sarah Brown, the upright but uptight 'mission doll,' out to reform the evildoers of New York's Time Square; Sky Masterson, the slick, high-rolling gambler who woos her on a bet...
He gave his readers a unique insider's sense of New York in the period between the world wars, with a special focus on the moral ambiguity of the Prohibition era (1920 to 1933) when alcoholic beverages were banned in America.
Despite his cynicism, he made his reputation by revealing New York City to outsiders and showing them its seamy side, even as its inhabitants held out the hope that their dreams, like his and that of Sky and Sarah in Guys and Dolls, might be fulfilled.
www.thisistheatre.com /londonshows/guysanddolls.html   (946 words)

  
 Guys And Dolls Script   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Cashing in on the success of Guys and Dolls, the script is based on a Damon Runyon story one of them co-written by Guys and Dolls composer Frank Loesser
Guys and Dolls Summer 1994 Guys and Dolls" is an upbeat, energetic, colorful version of the longtime favorite based on story and characters by Damon Runyan, script
Purchase The that are found in Guys and Dolls, a musical comedy originally described himself to get deeply involved with a girl "Guys and Dolls").
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 Guys and Dolls (1955)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In the next shot, she is holding a handkerchief in her hand which wasn't there before.
GUYS AND DOLLS (1955) *** 1/2 Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine, Stubby Kaye, Sheldon Leonard.
Classic Frank Loesser/Damon Runyon Broadway musical adaptation of motley group of gamblers, ne' er do wells, thugs, and their dames set to a lively score and eye candy brilliant color-schemed sets and costumes.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0048140   (301 words)

  
 Guys and Dolls - Agency is now closed...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Guys and Dolls - Agency is now closed...
It is with a little sadness we are announcing the closure of Guys and Dolls Model Management.
The majority of the models with Guys and Dolls have transferred to Bliss Models and Management and can be contacted at http://www.blissmodels.com.au/
www.guysanddolls.com.au   (115 words)

  
 Guys and Dolls
Guys and Dolls is the name of a musical by Frank Loesser.
Within the context of Promethea it refers to the 5 Swell Guys and the Painted Doll both of whom play a prominent part in the plot of this issue.
The checkered Painted Doll motif (derived from DC’s '60s ‘go-go checks’) and the decorative panel borders are hand-rendered.
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 Guys and Dolls!: From Stage to Screen
The title song is a break in the action and three of our gamblers comment on other guys falling in love.  For the film they put Nathan Detroit amongst the singers where he strangely has to change the sons tense from third to first.  I do feel the vocal stylings of Mr.
Nicely Nicely Johnson gives final testimony at the Save-a-Soul mission with this rousing number.  Stubby Kaye, still suprisingly subdued, speeds through the song but he does not sacrifice flair.  His energies are well spent in a big closing number.
The musical of Guys and Dolls is such a theatrical sensation that it is no wonder they pushed it to the big screen.  Still, I wish they put a bit more time and focus into the production.
www.geocities.com /TelevisionCity/Studio/8849/Moviemusicals/Obediah/GuysAndDolls.htm   (738 words)

  
 Guys and Dolls at Piccadilly Theatre - London theatre tickets and information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Guys and Dolls at Piccadilly Theatre - London theatre tickets and information
GUYS AND DOLLS opens at the Piccadilly Theatre on 19 May 2005.
On top of his gambling problems, Detroit also has to deal with the affections of the amorous Miss Adelaide (Krakowski), who is trying to make him settle down.
www.theatretickets.co.uk /566/Guys-and-Dolls.html   (294 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Film | McGregor daunted by dancing role
McGregor, 34, is to star in Guys and Dolls, his first stage musical.
He said he was already concerned about the singing when he turned up for rehearsals and saw the dancing steps, calling them "full-on".
He said he would not be comparing his performance in Guys and Dolls to that of Marlon Brando, who starred in the big-screen version of the musical.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/4441229.stm   (361 words)

  
 Video Review @ Stomp Tokyo - Guys and Dolls (1955)
In the face of these twin threats, Nathan is reluctant to abandon the game, after all: "I have been running that crap game ever since I was a juvenile delinquent" and more pertinently there's a lot of very big money in town.
One of the most endearing features of Guys and Dolls, incidentally, is the precise, formal way the various feckless (but loveable) low lives who inhabit the film speak.
The sets are cheap and cheesy, but this is part of the whole charm of the piece - a Technicolor never-never land of fast talking guys and their dolls.
www.stomptokyo.com /guests/g/guys-and-dolls.html   (708 words)

  
 Broadway: The American Musical . Memorable Musicals . Guys and Dolls | PBS
Songwriter Frank Loesser, producers Cy Feuer and Ernest Martin, book writer Abe Burrows, and choreographer Michael Kidd shared something else besides their devotion to the works of Runyon: they were all native New Yorkers and understood Runyon's urban milieu perfectly.
Their adaptation for "Guys and Dolls" leaned heavily on a Runyon story, "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown," which depicted an incongruous romance between an inveterate gambler named Sky Masterson and a Salvation Army-type missionary girl, headquartered in the theater district.
After its opening in November 1950, "Guys and Dolls" became one of Broadway's most enduring successes, running 1,200 performances and enjoying successful revivals all over the world, including three on Broadway alone.
www.pbs.org /wnet/broadway/musicals/guys.html   (350 words)

  
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Though born around the same time, The Arlington Players (founded in 1951) had never performed the seminal American musical “Guys and Dolls” (which premiered on Broadway a year earlier), even though the troupe over the years had tackled virtually every one of this show’s contemporaries.
Well, it was worth the wait, as TAP’s opening production for its 54th season features quality production values all around, with outstanding performances, stylish sets and a brisk pacing that makes the tale of taking a gamble on redemption a significant hit.
“Guys and Dolls” runs through Oct. 2 at Thomas Jefferson Community Theatre, 125 South Old Glebe Road in Arlington.
www.sungazette.net /stories/FEA10801.html   (746 words)

  
 Guys and Dolls
Despite the goofy humor the surface of the piece proposes, the transformation is a nasty one, and the sardonic comment it makes on our aspiration to the civilities of social life and, from there, to the ecstatic condition of love is typical of Taylor at his most sardonic.
But she does this to excess, adding gymnastic tricks for emphasis, and the cumulative effect is exhausting.
Worse, she's unable to find a latter-day equivalent to the homey innocence of De Mille's tone; in her hands, the looming threat (and lure) of the "bad guy" escalates to something as close as you can get onstage to rape.
www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/arts/dance/reviews/5846   (1092 words)

  
 getLIVE: Tickets for GUYS AND DOLLS - Tickets, dates.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Guys and Dolls tells the story of a group of small-time gamblers and the ladies in their lives.
Nigel Harman stars as the famous gambler Sky Masterson in the Donmar Warehouse's new production of Guys and Dolls, directed by the Donmar's award-winning Artistic Director Michael Grandage.
Frank Loesser's score features classic songs such as 'Luck be a Lady', 'Sit Down Your Rocking the Boat', 'Adelaide's Lament', 'I've Never Been in Love Before', 'If I Were a Bell' and the wonderful title song 'Guys and Dolls'.
www.getlive.co.uk /events/index.aspx?rid=37276   (339 words)

  
 Providence: Guys and Dolls - TV.com
We don't have allusions for Guys and Dolls.
The song that Syd and Paul are dancing to is the exact same song that the orchestra played in the third season episode Falling when Robbie is proposing to Tina at her garage shop.
We don't have trivia for Guys and Dolls.
www.tv.com /providence/guys-and-dolls/episode/1809/summary.html   (225 words)

  
 "Guys and Dolls"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The current production of "Guys and Dolls" is an upbeat, energetic, colorful version of the longtime favorite based on story and characters by Damon Runyan, script by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser.
Tedesco is a natural, likeable diamond-in-the-rough guy with a good voice, especially evident in "Sue Me." Burns' Adelaide is adenoidal, cuddly, independent, warmhearted and devoted to Nathan, all the things she ought to be.
The only difficulty with her delightful performance was volume; it was often hard to hear her song lyrics from well back in the theater.
www.r-m-t.org /guys.html   (548 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Guys & Dolls (1950 Original Broadway Cast): Music: Frank Loesser   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In fact, 1950 reviewers called this the "South Pacific of crapshooters." Alas, Guys and Dolls plays a lot better as a cartoon-like "fable" in the 1990s--which is why the revival is probably the definitive recording while this one is more a historical artifact.
"Guys and Dolls" should be done the way "Fair Lady", "West Side", etc are AND not cut like the last revival, with dances that relate to the story, not just pretty "steps".
Guys and Dolls is one of the the greatest of all Broadway musicals, and this recording is the best evidence of why that's so.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004U0QI?v=glance   (1546 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Guys And Dolls [1955]: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This DVD is a perfect for anybody involed in performing Guys and Dolls so you can get a idea of the musical or somebody who just enjoys musicals.
"Guys and Dolls" is indisputably one of greatest of Broadways shows and here it gets the best of Holywood treatment; a truly class act.
The cast is stella and even those who aren't known for their dancing and singing are totally convincing.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005KIT8   (1219 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Guys and Dolls: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
"Guys and Dolls" is a musical about gamblers and women, but the story is much better than that.
be a guy or a doll: by Yvonne Creek, A Runyonesque kind of a doll
Then this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the jack of spades jump out of this brand-new deck of cards and squirt cider in your ear.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0792844823?v=glance   (2233 words)

  
 Guys and Dolls tickets - tickets for Guys and Dolls at the Piccadilly Theatre, London
Guys and Dolls tickets - tickets for Guys and Dolls at the Piccadilly Theatre, London
Nigel Harman is contracted to appear in Guys and Dolls until 4 March 2006.
Guys and Dolls tells the story of a group of small - time gamblers and the ladies in their lives.
www.londontheatredirect.com /asp/GuysAndDolls.htm   (239 words)

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