Guys and Dolls
Musical by Abe Burrows and Jo SwerlingWikipedia
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Sep 11, 2026
John WilsonHOST
Productions that he directed himself include One Man, Two Guvnors and The History Boys, one of several collaborations with Alan Bennett.
John WilsonHOST
In 2017, he co-founded London's Bridge Theatre, where his productions have included Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Guys and Dolls.
John WilsonHOST
One of the most influential and successful figures in British theater, Sir Nicholas Hytner was knighted for services to drama in 2010.
John WilsonHOST
Nicholas Hytner, welcome to This Cultural Life.
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Nicholas HytnerGUEST
Mm-hmm
John WilsonHOST
...
John WilsonHOST
in, uh, the early '90s and more recently that very acclaimed Guys and Dolls that you put on at the Bridge Theatre.
John WilsonHOST
But the musical that really made your name was Miss Saigon.
GerryHOST
He won a Tony in 1969.
GerryHOST
He's a Broadway star, obviously, including Chicago, Guys and Dolls, Promises, Promises and 42nd Street.
GerryHOST
Very accomplished.
IainHOST
All the classics.
Julie MilesMODERATOR
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Julie MilesMODERATOR
Our special guests today are very excited to take on the task of talking about one of the most iconic and cherished musicals of all time, Guys and Dolls.
Julie MilesMODERATOR
Chris Weigand from The Guardian was planning on being here today and he really wanted to be here today, but there was a family emergency and so he wasn't able to get here.
Julie MilesMODERATOR
But I think we're covered because we have two pretty amazing people.
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Adam GopnikGUEST
So Burroughs realized that to make it work, he had to find a kind of mid-range where it was plausible as idiomatic speech, but wasn't written in that very stilted, formalized version that Runyon himself used.
Adam GopnikGUEST
And that was the great leap through.
Adam GopnikGUEST
And the other, and to my mind, the other great leap through, and this is, you know, it's for those of us who love, you know, American musicals or love the musical theater generally, this is one of maybe the three most famous anecdotes about starting off a show.
Adam GopnikGUEST
that the great opening number, Fugue for Tinhorns.
David ChaddertonHOST
Right.
David ChaddertonHOST
In the press release, your credits include Guys and Dolls, Nicely Nicely, of course, of the National Theatre, Hadestown.
David ChaddertonHOST
But it doesn't mention the show that I still talk of as being the best musical theatre production I've ever seen, which was Company at the Donmar in 1996.
David ChaddertonHOST
Company.
David ChaddertonHOST
Oh, my
Clive RoweGUEST
goodness.
Clive RoweGUEST
Again, I mean, if somebody forced my arm up my back and said, name my favorite shows, immediately I would have to go to Guys and Dolls.
Clive RoweGUEST
I'd have to go to Company.
Peter IvesHOST
Troy Sussman's extraordinary credits stretch over a 40-plus year career, and includes some of the biggest musicals in the canon.
Peter IvesHOST
Les Miserables in Australia and London, The Phantom of the Opera, Mary Poppins, Aladdin, Guys and Dolls, Oliver!, The Pirates of Penzance, The Drowsy Chaperone, and The Witches of Eastwick, to name just a few.
Peter IvesHOST
But beyond the credits, Troy is a true theater animal, passionate about the art form, about storytelling, and about sharing his experience with the next generation of performers.
Peter IvesHOST
He's presently at a new pinnacle, delivering one of the most iconic roles for a musical theater actor, the poor but warm-hearted milkman and patriarch of Bock and Harnick's Fiddler on the Roof.
Cathy GordonHOST
There's quite a few-
Carol HughesHOST
Guys and Dolls-
Cathy GordonHOST
... that I watched-
Carol HughesHOST
...
Everett SloanVOICE_ACTOR
At 6.30, I met my wife at Frank and Norman's, a steakhouse on 54th Street near Broadway.
Everett SloanVOICE_ACTOR
We had dinner and took a cab to the 46th Street Theater to see the hit musical, Guys and Dolls.
Everett SloanVOICE_ACTOR
An occasion we had both looked forward to for a year.
Everett SloanVOICE_ACTOR
The first act was fine.
Zak KuhnHOST
Okay.
Zak KuhnHOST
Okay, starting with Guys and Dolls.
Jason Robert BrownGUEST
Everybody loves Guys and Dolls.
Jason Robert BrownGUEST
Guys and Dolls is really funny.
Jason Robert BrownGUEST
And I think that's the main thing about it is, I mean, the music's great, but it's just, it's a musical comedy that actually gets laughs.
Jason Robert BrownGUEST
And I think that's the main thing to really appreciate about Guys and Dolls is no matter what else you talk about with that show, it is so specific in its comedy and everything lands.
Jason Robert BrownGUEST
And you can't hear one of those songs in any other context.
Jason Robert BrownGUEST
You know, you couldn't do a... a show and put a Guys and Dolls song in it and not have everybody go, huh, that belongs in another piece.
Sep 4 · 1 Mention
Anthony ChaseHOST
So the curtain up shows begin.
Anthony ChaseHOST
O'Connell and Company is going to be doing Guys and Dolls out at Canterbury Woods.
Anthony ChaseHOST
But then on the same night, opening is Gulp.
Anthony ChaseHOST
at bua this is a very early gay musical we're talking 1970s it was the first time the word gay was ever used in the theater listings for the new york times did you know that
Suzy NakamuraGUEST
And then Maine.
Suzy NakamuraGUEST
And then I had to drop out of The Girlfriend or Guys in Dallas, one of those.
Suzy NakamuraGUEST
Because I had like, I was working full time by the time I was a junior.
Suzy NakamuraGUEST
Wow.
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