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The list of roles in the 1950 classic Guys and Dolls evokes a colorful, bygone world of charmingly harmless bums, bookies, and wise guys. Nicely-Nicely Johnson. Rusty Charlie. Angle the Ox. Harry the Horse. Along with the musical's main characters--the inveterate gambler Nathan Detroit, his rheumy sweetie Miss Adelaide, their handsome pal Sky Masterson, and his prim "Mission doll" Sarah Brown--they sprang to musical-theater immortality propelled by a wonderfully comic book by Abe Burrows and Jo Swerling, a brilliant score by Frank Loesser, crackling direction by George Abbott and dazzling choreography by Michael Kidd.
But these characters, their grandiose slang, and their amusing adventures originated in the stories of Damon Runyon, who began life in Manhattan, Kansas, and ended as the most famous chronicler of that other Manhattan in the 1930s and '40s. His writing is...
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