What is Guys and Dolls?
{{no sources|date=February 2025}} {{italictitle}} '''''Guys and Dolls''''' is a 1950 [[Broadway]] [[musical]]. The music and [[lyrics]] were written by Frank Loesser, and the speaking parts were written by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. The story of ''Guys and Dolls'' is based on [[Short story|short stories]] written by Damon Runyon. It won the [[Tony Award for Best Musical]]. == What happens == Nathan Detroit, a gambler in 1920's [[New York City]], needs a place to hold his illegal dice game where he will not be caught by the police. He finds a place, but the person who owns it wants one thousand dollars to rent it for the night. Nathan thinks he is out of luck, until he hears that the famous gambler Sky Masterson is in town. He bets Sky one thousand dollars that he cannot get Sarah Brown, a [[missionary]], to go to Havana, Cuba with him. Because Sarah is very religious and moralistic, Nathan thinks she will never agree to go with him. Nathan has another problem. He has been engaged to a woman named Adelaide for fourteen years, but they still are not married. Adelaide is so frustrated with him that she comes down with a cold. She tells him that if he does not marry her, she will leave him. Nathan promises to marry her, but then realizes that the night he said he would meet her is the same night as the dice game. He does not marry her, and Adelaide is extremely angry with him. She tells him she never wants to see him again. Meanwhile, Sarah's mission is about to be closed down unless she can have it filled for a midnight prayer meeting later that week. Sky hears about this and makes a deal with her. If she goes to Havana with him, he will persuade the men he knows to go to the prayer meeting. Because Sarah is desperate, she accepts his offer. At first Sky is only taking her to Havana to win the bet, and Sarah is only going with him to save her mission, but while they are in Havana they fall in love. As Sky is saying goodbye to her, Nathan and the other gamblers run out of [[The Mission (1986 movie)|the mission