guys and dolls

     

Approrpriately, Nathan Lane played Nathan Detroit in a 1992 revival of this musical

Trivia about guys and dolls

  • "Luck Be a Lady"
  • "Adelaide's Lament" & "Luck Be A Lady"
  • Nicely-Nicely Johnson,Sky Masterson,Nathan Detroit
  • In 1992 Adam Arkin of "Chicago Hope" took over the role of Nathan Detroit in this musical revival
  • This 1955 film about gamblers is tops on my list of Marlon Brando musicals
  • Damon Runyon's short story "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" inspired this musical
  • Sky Masterson &Nathan Detroit
  • Adelaide & the chorus girls at the Hot Box Club sing "Take Back Your Mink" in Act II of this musical
  • The Sky (Masterson) was the limit:"GLAD SUDS ONLY"
  • A character nicknamed Nicely Nicely sings "Sit down you're rocking the boat" in this 1955 movie
  • A floating craps game goes bust at the Bowery's Save-A-Soul Mission in this play
  • "A lady doesn't wander all over the room and blow on some other guy's dice"
  • Emily Loesser sang the part of Sarah Brown in a recent recording of this musical written by her father
  • He took a gamble & made his musical debut in this 1955 film, & he did his own singing, too
  • Nathan: "There is the highest player of them all... why do you think they call him Sky? That's how high he bets"
  • "Fugue for Tinhorns","The Oldest Established (Permanent Floating Crap Game In New York)"
  • "Luck Be A Lady"&"Sit Down, You're Rockin' The Boat"
  • The 1992 Tony for Best Revival went to this musical, heard here:
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a craps table.) In this musical, Nathan Detroit runs the oldest-established permanent floating crap game in New York
  • We're sure that Vivian Blaine never lamented playing Adelaide in this 1955 hit
  • Movie in which you'd hear the following:"Luck be a lady tonight, luck be a lady tonight, luck if you've ever been lady to begin with, luck be a lady tonight!"