GIVING THANKS TO BROADWAY: HAPPY 70th TO "GUYS AND DOLLS"

Happy Thanksgiving … and Happy Anniversary to Guys and Dolls, which opened seventy years ago tonight on Broadway. Having recently directed it in summer stock in 2018, I can attest that its effect on our Plymouth, Mass audience was one of unadulterated joy. I marveled at how many of the jokes still played and even dared one actor in the role of Lt. Brannigan to make one nearly impossible line work; an ancient reference to a show that closed in 1923. "You look like the male chorus of Blossom Time" — and dammit if he didn't score a big laugh!