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GUYS AND DOLLS [musical show]
- Title
- GUYS AND DOLLS [musical show]
- Opening Date
- November 24, 1950
- Genre
- musical show
- Production and Recordings Information
- Orig prod. MUSIC & WORDS: Frank Loesser. ORCH: George Bassman, Ted Royal. COND: Irving Actman. CAST: Robert Alda, Vivian Blaine, Sam Levene, Isabel Bigley, Pat Rooney Sr, Stubby Kaye, Johnny Silver, Douglas Deane. (Dec 8036; CD/MCA MCAD-10301; CD/Dec 012-159-112-2, with soundtrack material; CD/Prism(E) PLATCD-732; CD/Naxos(E) 8.120786, with addl material (ALB-2209). Excerpts: Alda: "My Time of Day" (ALB-2294) "Luck Be a Lady Tonight" (ALB-830, ALB-2181) Blaine: "A Bushel and a Peck" (ALB-830, ALB-2294) "Adelaide's Lament" (ALB-1582, ALB-1703) Blaine, Bigley: "Marry the Man Today" (ALB-1488, ALB-2294) Kaye, Silver: "Guys and Dolls" (ALB-1488) Kaye, Silver, Deane, Bigley: "Runyonland Music/Fugue for Tinhorns/Follow the Fold" (ALB-1180) Alda, Bigley: "I'll Know" (ALB-1703) "I've Never Been in Love Before" Rooney: "More I Cannot Wish You" (ALB-2294).)
- 1950 studio prod. COND: Al Goodman. CAST: Audrey Marsh, Ray Charles, Morey Amsterdam, Donald Richards, chorus. (RCA LK-1000. Excerpt: Amsterdam: "Sue Me" (ALB-2209).)
- 1951 studio prod. ORCH: Various. COND: Morris Stoloff. ORCH: Various. CAST: Frank Sinatra of 1955 film prod; Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Jo Stafford, Sammy Davis Jr, McGuire Sisters, Dinah Shore, Debbie Reynolds, Allan Sherman, Clark Dennis. (Reprise F-2016; CD/Reprise 9-45014-2; box set CD/Reprise 2-47775, titled "Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre," with addl material. Incomplete: Harmony HS-11374. Excerpt: Shore: "Three-Cornered Tune" (ALB-2209).)
- 1953 album. COND: Wally Stott. VOCALS: Julie Wilson, David Hughes, Barbara Leigh, Bill Lowe, Johnny Brandon. (45/Philip(E) 425094, ALB-1675)
- 1955 album, incl songs written by Loesser for the 1955 film. VOCALS: Rosemary Clooney, Jo Stafford, Frankie Laine, Jerry Vale, Dick Williams, Jan Stewart. (Col 10" CL-2567)
- 1955 film soundtrack. COND: Jay Blackton. CAST: Frank Sinatra, Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Vivian Blaine, Stubby Kaye, Johnny Silver, chorus. (Motion Picture Tracks MPT-1; CD/Blue Moon(Spain) 3507 (ALB-2294); ALB-656. Incomplete: 45/Dec album ED-2332; Stet DS-25001, with Call Me Madam & I'll Cry Tomorrow; CD/Dec 012-159-112-2, with orig prod. Excerpts: Brando, Simmons: "A Woman in Love" (ALB-1131, ALB-1156, ALB-1295, ALB-2279) Simmons: "If I Were a Bell" (ALB-1156, ALB-2279) Sinatra: "Adelaide" Sinatra, Blaine: "Sue Me" Sinatra, Kaye, Silver: "The Oldest Established," "Guys and Dolls" (ALB-2065) Brando: "Luck Be a Lady" (ALB-2279).)
- 1956 medley. COND: Johnny Gregory. VOCALS: Doreen Hume, John Hanson, chorus. (78/Embassy(E) WB-214)
- 1962 studio prod. ORCH: Bobby Richards. COND: Kenneth Alwyn. CAST: Adele Leigh, Gordon Boyd, Joyce Blair, chorus. (World Record Club(E) T-177, with West Side Story)
- 1976 prod. ORCH: Danny Holgate, Horace Ott. COND: Howard Roberts. CAST: Norma Donaldson, Robert Guillaume, Ernestine Jackson, James Randolph, Ken Page, Christophe Pierre, Emett "Babe" Wallace. (Motown M6-876S1; CD/Motown MCDO-6187-MD.)
- 1982 London prod. ORCH: Tony Britten, Terry Davies. COND: Tony Britten. CAST: Ian Charleson, Julie Covington, Bob Hoskins, Julia McKenzie, David Healy, John Normington, Barrie Rutter, Kevin Williams. (Chrysalis(E) CDL-1388; CD/Chrysalis(E) CCDD-1388.)
- 1992 prod. ORCH: George Bassman, Ted Royal, Michael Starobin. COND: Edward Strauss. CAST: Peter Gallagher, Nathan Lane, Josie de Guzman, Faith Prince, Walter Bobbie, J K Simmons, John Carpenter. (CD/RCA Victor 09026-61317-2. Excerpts: Prince: "Adelaide's Lament" (ALB-1678) Prince, Lane: "Sue Me" (ALB-1755).)
- 1995 studio prod, incl three songs from the 1955 film & one dropped from orig prod. ORCH: George Bassman, Ted Royal, Larry Moore. COND: John Owen Edwards. CAST: Emily Loesser, Gregg Edelman, Kim Criswell, Tim Flavin, Don Stephenson, David Green, Brian Greene, chorus. (CD/Jay 2-1294. Excerpts: CD/Showtime! CD-034.)
- 1995 studio prod. COND: Matthew Freeman. CAST: Keith Michell, Barbara Windsor, Bernard Cribbins (of 1982 London prod), Liz Robertson, Dennis Lotis, Nick Curtis, Lindsay Benson, chorus. (CD/Carlton(E) 30362-00132)
- 2001 Washington prod. ORCH: George Bassman, Ted Royal, Danny Kosarin. COND: Danny Kosarin. CAST: Maurice Hines, Alexandra Foucard, Brian Sutherland, Diane Sutherland, Clent Bowers, Ted Ingrahm, Lawrence Redmond. (CD/DRG 19017 (ALB-2036), with addl material)
- Demo records by Frank Loesser (composer). "Fugue for Tinhorns" (with Milton Delugg & Sue Bennett: ALB-1468) "Traveling Light" (not used) "Adelaide" (used in 1955 film) "I'll Know," "Luck Be a Lady," "I've Never Been in Love Before," "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat," "Sue Me" (ALB-1468, ALB-2036)
- Records by members of 1953 London cast. Edmund Hockridge: "I've Never Been in Love Before," "My Time of Day," "I'll Know," "Luck Be a Lady" (1953: 45/Col(E) 8593) "A Woman in Love" (added to 1955 film score) (1955: 78/Pye Nixa(E) N-15067) Lizbeth Webb: "I've Never Been in Love Before," "If I Were a Bell" (1953: 78/HMV(E) B-10508, ALB-2152) Jerry Wayne: "I've Never Been in Love Before," "Luck Be a Lady" (1953: 78/Philips(E) PB-146, ALB-2152) "I'll Know," "My Time of Day" (1953: 78/Philips(E) PB-147, ALB-2152)
- Records by members of 1992 prod. Faith Prince: "Adelaide's Lament" (1998: ALB-2013) Nathan Lane: "Sue Me" (2000: ALB-2003)
- Records by Vivian Blaine of orig, 1953 London, & 1955 film prods. "If I Were a Bell" (1957: ALB-1029) "A Bushel and a Peck/Take Back Your Mink/Adelaide's Lament" (1983: ALB-924)
- Note
- From: Show Music on Record by Jack Raymond
- DigitalID
- loc.natlib.smor.19501124
Last Updated: 08-23-2012