Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Broadway jargon it speaks so well, Guys and Dolls (TIME, Dec. 4) is now "the hottest ticket in town." (Runners-up: South Pacific, Call Me Madam). Because 50 performances of the hit musical were sold out to theater parties before it opened, even the Manhattan ticket brokers are having a hard time getting tickets for Guys and Dolls; for once, they are not much better off than the ordinary playgoer. Last week, to meet the demand, the show's producers went to an extreme that is unprecedented on Broadway: they began selling tickets as far as a full year...
...from the ground up. Inspired by the late Damon Runyon's raffish fables, they did the same with Guys and Dolls. Except for Pat Rooney Sr., who last appeared in a Manhattan playhouse in 1918, none of the new show's principals has ever played in a Broadway musical before. But Guys and Dolls, three months old, will recoup its $177,000 investment before the end of March, send out a touring company this summer. Advance sale at week...
Guys and Dolls. Delightful low-down musical about Broadway's floating crap games and the babes who need new shoes (TIME...
...play, an adaptation of one of Herman Melville's novels, recently opened on Broadway...
...With Claude Rains brilliantly playing its tragic hero, the dramatized version of Darkness at Noon is currently the most moving play on Broadway...