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Guys & Dolls

The Bridge Theatre, London

This 1950 musical (music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows) has everything. Dialogue and lyrics take off from Damon Runyon’s short stories. The plot – hinging on collision and elision between card sharps and salvationists – is energetic, tender

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