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Guys and Dolls opened on November 3, 1955, at the Capitol Theatre in New York City [22] to mostly positive reviews. Rotten Tomatoes reports that 91% out of 33 critics have given the film a positive review, with a rating average of 7.7/10 and the consensus: "An escapist and inventive cinemascope delight, Guys and Dolls glistens thanks to the ...
Guys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. It is based on " The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown " (1933) and "Blood Pressure", which are two short stories by Damon Runyon , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and also borrows characters and plot elements from other Runyon stories, such as "Pick the Winner".
The song was covered in 2002 by Irish pop band Six and was a number-one single in Ireland, where it was titled "There's a Whole Lot of Loving Going On".It became Ireland's best-selling song of 2002 and went on to become the country's third best-selling single of all time.
The song is a duet from the 1950 musical Guys and Dolls, and is sung by the characters Sky Masterson and Sister Sarah Brown. In the play it immediately follows the short solo song "My Time of Day", sung by Sky. Both songs were only used as background music in the 1955 film adaptation of the musical, [1] being replaced by the duet "A Woman in Love".
The song also mentions Equipoise (1928–1938), a real-life Thoroughbred racehorse and stakes race champion of his time. While the racehorse "Epitaph" mentioned in the song's lyrics is fictional, the American Quarter Horse stallion and racehorse Go Man Go (1953–1983) was a great-grandson of Equipoise. [ 4 ]
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[5] When the song was cut from the movie, because producer Samuel Goldwyn "neither liked nor understood the song," [5] Loesser added the song to Guys and Dolls. [6] To devise some of the singular lyrics, Loesser derived "with a sheep's eye" from "making sheep's eyes at" to describe "the imagined lover's almost pitiable adoration of the girl."