November
24, 1950
Guys and Doll
Guys and Dolls is a musical
with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser. The premiere on Broadway was November
24, 1950. It ran for 1200 performances and won the Tony Award for Best Musical.
The musical has had several
Broadway and London revivals, as well as a 1955 film adaptation starring Marlon
Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine.
Guys and Dolls, conceived by
producers Cy Feuer and Ernest Martin as an adaptation of Damon Runyon's short
stories. These stories, written in the 1920s and 1930s, concerned gangsters,
gamblers, and other characters of the New York underworld. George S. Kaufman
was director.
Guys and Dolls, was selected
as the winner of the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. However, because of writer
Abe Burrows' troubles with the House Un-American Activities Committee, the
Trustees of Columbia University vetoed the selection, and no Pulitzer for Drama
was awarded that year.
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