The Making of Guys & Dolls
The love, labor, and lament that go into the making of a play or a musical comedy are repaid aplenty when the result proves to be as great as the one that brought Damon Runyon’s mugs and dames alive on the Broadway stage. The show was made into a hit movie and, three decades after the curtain first went up, is still performed frequently all over the country and in many other parts of the world. The man who wrote the book for it—as well as for numerous other Broadway successes—tells how it was done.