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Guys and Dolls (Theatre)
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Guys and Dolls is a 1950 musical comedy with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and a book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. It was based heavily on two short stories by Damon Runyon, "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure", with smaller elements from his other stories. The original Broadway production was nominated for five Tony awards, winning all of them, including Best Musical and Best Actor in a Musical (Robert Alda as Sky Masterson).The plot centers on Sky Masterson, a chronic high-rolling gambler, and Sarah Brown, a mission worker in New York City. When fellow gambler Nathan Detroit finds himself in need of $1,000, Nathan bets Sky he cannot get Sarah to go to Havana with him. Hilarity Ensues. Other players include Adelaide, Nathan's long-suffering long-time fiancée, Sarah's uncle Arvide, and an ensemble of gamblers hanging around Nathan including Nicely-Nicely Johnson, Benny Southstreet, and Harry the Horse.Its most famous song is "Luck Be a Lady," with "Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat" a close second.Adapted into a movie by Joseph L. Mankiewicz in 1955, with Marlon Brando as Sky, Jean Simmons as Sister Sarah, Frank Sinatra as Nathan, and Vivian Blaine as Adelaide. | |
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Incessant Chorus | |
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Incessant Chorus: "Follow the Fold" appears many times as the theme for the Save-a-Soul Mission. | |
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Hero Antagonist | |
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Hero Antagonist: Brannigan is determined to take down the gamblers, and he's not exactly wrong to do so. However, the audience is unlikely to root for him given the fact that our main characters' crimes extend no farther than gambling, and Brannigan is implied to be a Dirty Cop, at least previously. | |
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Right Behind Me | |
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Right Behind Me: Benny Southstreet and Nicely-Nicely Johnson discuss the fact that a bunch of high-rollers are in town and that Nathan needs to find a spot for his crap game... while Brannigan is within earshot. | |
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Professional Gambler | |
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Professional Gambler: All of the male characters except for Uncle Arvide and Lt. Brannigan. The word "tinhorn" (another word for a professional gambler) is even referenced in "Fugue for Tinhorns." | |
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Deadly Road Trip | |
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Deadly Road Trip: Not so much deadly as pickpocketing unwary tourists. | |
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Milholland Relationship Moment | |
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Milholland Relationship Moment: When Sky confesses about The Bet, Sarah simply replies that she expected it: "How else would a girl get to meet a gambler?" | |
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Above the Influence | |
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Above the Influence: A drunk Sarah keeps coming on to Sky, but he decides to take her back to New York because he doesn't want to "win with loaded dice". | |
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Gospel Revival Number | |
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Gospel Revival Number: "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat," sung, appropriately enough, at a prayer meeting. | |
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Overly Narrow Superlative | |
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Overly Narrow Superlative: "It's the oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York." | |
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Your Mind Makes It Real | |
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Your Mind Makes It Real: "Adelaide's Lament" and the reprise have Adelaide singing what she's learned about psychosomatic illnesses. She blames her poor health on her anxiety over failing to get Nathan to marry her. | |
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Ironic Name | |
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Ironic Name: In many theater versions, "Big Jule" is played by the smallest person on the cast, often giving a Big Guy, Little Guy vibe with Harry the Horse. The 2018 Houston production went so far as to cast a lady dwarf as "Big Julie," less than half the height of her sidekick. | |
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Defrosting Ice Queen | |
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Defrosting Ice Queen: Sky is able to get the prim, proper Sarah to lighten up and be more assertive. | |
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Ambiguously Jewish | |
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Ambiguously Jewish: Nathan's lines are full of Yiddishisms like "nu?" and "no-goodnik". | |
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Gambling Ruins Lives | |
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Gambling Ruins Lives: Played for comedy and Zig-Zagged Trope. Written in the 1950s, gambling is portrayed not just as illegal but as synonymous with sin, though it never takes itself too seriously. Nathan Detroit's continued devotion to running his floating crap game keeps him from marrying Adelaide, his fiancée of 14 years, until he calls it quits for good at the end. Sky Masterson initially believes that no long-term relationship can make him feel as good as winning at craps can until he falls for Sarah Brown, and Sarah, despite being attracted to Sky, is repulsed by his gambling as a Save-a-Soul missionary. However, marriage itself is portrayed as a gamble worth taking, and Sky winning a crap game helps save Sarah's branch of the Save-A-Soul Mission, so the message is mixed. Discussed in "Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat", when Nicely-Nicely Johnson pretends to recount an Opinion-Changing Dream where he realized gambling was going to get him sent to Hell and repents. However, since some productions and the movie show Nicely joining the Save-a-Soul Mission in the end, he may have had a genuine change of heart. | |
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Illegal Gambling Den | |
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Illegal Gambling Den: "The oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York" is one of these, constantly having to find new venues because the authorities keep shutting them down. | |
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I Can Change My Beloved | |
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I Can Change My Beloved: "Marry the Man Today" ("and change his ways tomorrow!") is all about Adelaide and Sarah discussing the possibility of changing their love interests after marriage, rather than waiting for them to clean up before getting married. Indeed, it seems to work out well enough for Sarah, and Adelaide is clearly making great progress even before the wedding is done. However, some productions cut this number for Values Dissonance reasons. | |
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Fourth-Date Marriage | |
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Fourth-Date Marriage: Sarah and Sky get married after knowing each other for about 48 hours. Subverted with Nathan and Adelaide who have been engaged for fourteen years. | |
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Costume Porn | |
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Costume Porn: The beloved nineties Broadway revival famously had the entire cast in bright, vivid colors straight out of a cartoon. The result was the most eye catching production the show's yet seen. | |
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The Magic Poker Equation | |
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The Magic Poker Equation: Sky Masterson has an entire song, "Luck Be A Lady," trying to invoke this. He rolls one time for a bet that pits $1k for every man in the room against their attendance at the mission's prayer meeting and wins. | |
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Pretty in Mink | |
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Pretty in Mink: The song "Take Back Your Mink" is an inversion. In it, the protagonist tells her suitor to take back the mink he gave her if all he wanted was to get her into bed. | |
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Drunken Song | |
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Drunken Song: "If I Were A Bell". Sky has gotten Sarah drunk on dulce de leche and now she can't stop singing about how happy she is. | |
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Delusions of Eloquence | |
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Delusions of Eloquence: One of the Trope Codifiers, as all of the gamblers talk this way. | |
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Affably Evil | |
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They sure are a nice and goofy group of people breaking the law aren't they? Worth noting, of the main characters, Sky, Nathan, Nicely, and Benny are never implied to do anything more immoral than gambling, with the exception of Detroit paying off a cop to turn a blind eye to the game. | |
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The Dragon | |
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The Dragon: Harry the Horse brings Big Jule to the crap game and stands by all of his blatant cheating. | |
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Irrelevant Act Opener | |
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Irrelevant Act Opener: "Take Back Your Mink." It seems to serve no purpose other than to give Adelaide another song. | |
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Beta Couple | |
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Beta Couple: In terms of general role, Nathan and Adelaide; but both in stage time and importance to the story, they're pretty much equal. The emotional climax ("Marry the Man Today") is, after all, about both couples, and the end of the show only comes when Nathan and Adelaide are actually married. | |
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Heel–Face Turn | |
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Heel–Face Turn: The missionaries are trying to push these on the general public to no avail. Even in the end when Sky has brought the gamblers to their mission, they clearly have no interest in actually committing to the cause, though that doesn't stop Nicely from singing a Showstopper about doing so. We do get more genuine examples in Sky and Nathan, as Sarah and Adelaide decide to enforce this trope after marrying. We get to see these in the final scene. Sky has officially joined the missionaries and if his speech about the dangers of gambling are any indication, it seems being with Sarah means he no longer feels such an urge. He does make a small joke about betting, but it's a rather innocent one, so it seems like he should be out of trouble. Nathan now owns a newsstand, making legitimate cash, and is finally getting married to Adelaide. While his cold that day implies his transition won't be without hitch, the fact that he's cleaned up his act even before his and Adelaide's marriage implies that he's on the right track and they should be happy. Nicely Nicely Johnson even joins the missionaries and is implied to have a reciprocated crush on one of the women. She catches the bouquet that Adelaide throws at her wedding. | |
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All Musicals Are Adaptations | |
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All Musicals Are Adaptations: In this case an adaptation of short stories by Damon Runyon, most importantly, "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure", although characters are pulled from several others, as well. | |
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Lady Luck | |
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Lady Luck: "Luck be a Lady" is an appeal to a personification of luck. | |
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Family-Friendly Stripper | |
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Family-Friendly Stripper: The performers in the Hot Box. Word of God says it's pretty much a toned-down strip club. | |
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Opposites Attract | |
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Opposites Attract: Gambler Sky Masterson and Church Lady Sarah Brown are nothing if not this, since Sarah's goal in life is to stop guys like Sky from being gamblers. | |
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Massive Numbered Siblings | |
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Massive Numbered Siblings: Adelaide told her mother that she and Nathan are not only married, but have five children with a sixth on the way. Part of the reason she wants to get married for real is so that they can get started on having children for real. | |
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Hazy-Feel Turn | |
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Hazy-Feel Turn: Big Jule and Harry the Horse are roped into helping Sky and Sarah after they're removed as threats. Still, they only do so because they lost a bet and while neither does anything antagonistic again afterwards, there's no sign of them changing their ways despite this. Lieutenant Brannigan is heavily implied to have previously been on Nathan's payroll before the events of the show where he acts as a Hero Antagonist. It's never made clear what caused his falling out with Nathan, whether it was due to any actual sense of morality, or other factors which have now caused him to try to bring Detroit down. | |
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Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist | |
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Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist: Lt. Brannigan. No matter how many times he gets close to nailing Nathan Detroit and his buddies on the gambling charges they absolutely deserve, he never does. He also gives Adelaide away at her wedding in the movie! | |
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Tsundere | |
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Tsundere: Sarah is a virtuous, demure young lady who works as a member of a Salvation Army expy. However, as Sky finds out, she can become ferocious when bothered sufficiently. | |
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Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_7ef728b1 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_7f9b12a6 | type |
Chairman of the Brawl | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_7f9b12a6 | comment |
Chairman of the Brawl: In the film version, both Sky and Sarah use chairs as weapons during the brawl in the cafe in Havana. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_7f9b12a6 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_829b958e | type |
Embarrassing First Name | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_829b958e | comment |
Embarrassing First Name: If your first name was Obadiah you'd call yourself "Sky" too. | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_829b958e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_829b958e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_829b958e | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_84df9a79 | type |
Second-Face Smoke | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_84df9a79 | comment |
Second-Face Smoke: During the title song in the movie there's a sight gag where a doll who's been shopping does this to her hapless guy who carries all her packages and lights her cigarette while holding them all. | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_84df9a79 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_84df9a79 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_84df9a79 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_863fa679 | type |
What Happened to the Mouse? | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_863fa679 | comment |
What Happened to the Mouse?: Rusty appears alongside Nicely and Benny at the beginning, but after that moment, he departs and his role in the show is over. Granted, it's extremely easy to just have him appear in the ensemble of gamblers afterwards, but his relevance only extends to singing the third part of "Fugue of Tinhorns". | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_863fa679 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_87e661e8 | type |
Absurdly Spacious Sewer | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_87e661e8 | comment |
Absurdly-Spacious Sewer: Enough for a big ol' dance number during the final craps game - it's absurdly spacious even by the standards of absurdly spacious sewers... | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_87e661e8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_87e661e8 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_8b200e5f | type |
Hypochondria | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_8b200e5f | comment |
Hypochondria: Nathan Detroit's fiancée Adelaide is a hypochondriac because of their prolonged engagement, as shown in the song "Adelaide's Lament." | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_8b200e5f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_8b200e5f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_8b200e5f | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_8bbf64f | type |
Unsuspectingly Soused | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_8bbf64f | comment |
Unsuspectingly Soused: Sarah after drinking Dulce de Leche. | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_8bbf64f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_8bbf64f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_8bbf64f | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_8c0bbee3 | type |
The Family for the Whole Family | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_8c0bbee3 | comment |
The Family for the Whole Family: They sure are a nice and goofy group of people breaking the law aren't they? Worth noting, of the main characters, Sky, Nathan, Nicely, and Benny are never implied to do anything more immoral than gambling, with the exception of Detroit paying off a cop to turn a blind eye to the game. Big Jule and Harry however clearly have criminal activities that extend beyond gambling, making them the straightest example of this trope in the cast. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_8c0bbee3 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_8ca89acb | type |
I Need to Go Iron My Dog | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_8ca89acb | comment |
I Need to Go Iron My Dog: Played for Dramatic Irony. When Adelaide begs Nathan to elope with her that moment, he gets interrupted by two of his fellow gamblers reminding him about his payoff on Sky's bet. Nathan actually does have to go to a prayer meeting, but Adelaide doesn't believe him, given all the times he's misled her. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_8ca89acb | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_8f9f71a8 | type |
Crazy Enough to Work | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_8f9f71a8 | comment |
Crazy Enough to Work: Sky Masterson loves betting enormous amounts of money on trivial matters such as "which lump of sugar will a fly sit on, or how far can you kick a piece of cheesecake", which he seems to always win. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_8f9f71a8 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_9082d1e6 | type |
Rewritten Pop Version | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_9082d1e6 | comment |
Rewritten Pop Version: A gambling-free version of "Fugue For Tinhorns" called "Three-Cornered Tune." | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_9082d1e6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_9082d1e6 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_930e1bd4 | type |
Absurdly High-Stakes Game | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_930e1bd4 | comment |
Absurdly High-Stakes Game: Not only does "Sky" Masterson get his name from this, there's also his high-stakes roll at the craps game - $1,000 for every man, against their souls (and attendance at the Save-a-Soul mission). | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_930e1bd4 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_95b7c400 | type |
Faux Affably Evil | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_95b7c400 | comment |
Faux Affably Evil: Big Jule may put up a friendly front during the game, but he also makes it clear that he's going to rob everyone through cheating and has no problem killing anyone who opposes. | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_95b7c400 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_95b7c400 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_970c790a | type |
Big Bad | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_970c790a | comment |
Big Jule and Harry the Horse are roped into helping Sky and Sarah after they're removed as threats. Still, they only do so because they lost a bet and while neither does anything antagonistic again afterwards, there's no sign of them changing their ways despite this. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_970c790a | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_98650fc7 | type |
Deconfirmed Bachelor | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_98650fc7 | comment |
Deconfirmed Bachelor: Sky Masterson advises Nathan against marriage...before falling for Sarah. Nathan himself, who despite being engaged to Adelaide has managed to put off the wedding for fourteen years. Despite this, he seems to take it for granted that they'll get married eventually, and Benny Southstreet comments that it's a shame he "had to go and fall in love with his own fiancée." | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_98650fc7 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_99404851 | type |
Ladykiller in Love | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_99404851 | comment |
Ladykiller in Love: Possibly Sky with Sarah; we don't see him with any other women over the course of the play, but he implies that he could take any doll to Havana if he wished, and he's supremely confident that he can win Sarah over. Not to mention the fact that he's able to win over a doll who was seemingly the perfect choice to not fall for him implies he knows his way around ladies. | |
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1.0 | |
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Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_99404851 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_a5b12e14 | type |
Commitment Issues | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_a5b12e14 | comment |
Commitment Issues: Nathan has been engaged to Adelaide for over a decade. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_a5b12e14 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_a7850fbf | type |
Only Known by Their Nickname | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_a7850fbf | comment |
Only Known by Their Nickname: Many of the gamblers never give their actual names. Sky starts out going solely by his nickname, but during his romance with Sarah, he tells her his real name, Obadiah. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_a7850fbf | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_aaedd10 | type |
Given Name Reveal | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_aaedd10 | comment |
Given Name Reveal: Sky Masterson reveals his real name (Obadiah) to Sarah Brown, then she reveals it to everyone else just before the finale. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_aaedd10 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_acf33d00 | type |
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_acf33d00 | comment |
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: If it wasn't for Harry the Horse saying that Big Jule can't make a pass to save his soul with Nathan's dice, Sky wouldn't have been able to make good on the deal he made with the Mission about getting in 12 genuine sinners, and then he wouldn't have reconciled with and married Sarah, and Nathan wouldn't have married Adelaide. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_acf33d00 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_b29cc937 | type |
Sidekick Song | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_b29cc937 | comment |
Sidekick Song: Nicely-Nicely leads "Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat", which is a song about a made-up dream about a boat ride to Heaven spoiled by his sinful behavior, during the prayer meeting. Arvide, Sarah's uncle, sings "More I Cannot Wish You" when he's encouraging her after her breakup. And the title song for Nicely-Nicely (again) and Benny. Nathan took it over for The Film of the Play, because...well, if you have Frank Sinatra in a part that only has two major songs, wouldn't you shoehorn him into everything else you possibly can? | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_b29cc937 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_b3ee69 | type |
Kiss-Kiss-Slap | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_b3ee69 | comment |
Kiss-Kiss-Slap: After some verbal sparring, Sarah Brown looks like she'll be won over by Sky randomly making out with her, but then she hits him. Hard. She's okay with kissing him later, though. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_b3ee69 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_b4a6ae4c | type |
Everyone Has Standards | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_b4a6ae4c | comment |
Everyone Has Standards: Nathan may not have even met Adelaide's mother, but he morally objects to her lying about them being married and having five kids. Noticeably he brings this up before making it clear how he's bothered about the letter's effect on him. Sky's fine letting Sarah get plastered in Havana, but he refuses to get intimate while she's like that. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_b4a6ae4c | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_b58898a1 | type |
Opening Ballet | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_b58898a1 | comment |
Opening Ballet: "Runyonland." | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_b58898a1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_b58898a1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_b58898a1 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_b5b4b485 | type |
The Bet | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_b5b4b485 | comment |
The Bet: Sky bets Nathan that he can take "any doll you pick" to Havana for the weekend. Nathan picks Sarah, a missionary from the Save-A-Soul Mission (an expy of the Salvation Army). | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_b5b4b485 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_b64ea263 | type |
Westminster Chimes | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_b64ea263 | comment |
Westminster Chimes: The play-out of "If I Were A Bell". | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_b64ea263 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_b64ea263 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_b9b5af3e | type |
The Film of the Play | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_b9b5af3e | comment |
And the title song for Nicely-Nicely (again) and Benny. Nathan took it over for The Film of the Play, because...well, if you have Frank Sinatra in a part that only has two major songs, wouldn't you shoehorn him into everything else you possibly can? | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_b9b5af3e | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_b9fc31d3 | type |
Victoria's Secret Compartment | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_b9fc31d3 | comment |
Victoria's Secret Compartment: During the "Runyonland" number in the film version, a pair of well dressed dolls pickpocket a (stolen) pocket watch off Rusty. One of the dolls examines the watch and then conceals it down her cleavage. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_b9fc31d3 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_bc80725e | type |
Wedding Finale | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_bc80725e | comment |
Wedding Finale: At the end of the stage show, Sky Masterson and Sarah Brown have just been married and Nathan Detroit is about to marry Miss Adelaide. At the end of the movie, Sky Masterson marries Sarah Brown and Nathan Detroit marries Miss Adelaide in a double wedding. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_bc80725e | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_c1d5b78 | type |
Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_c1d5b78 | comment |
Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud: Not a stage direction but Adelaide manages something similar when singing from a medical journal in "Adelaide's Lament": | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_c1d5b78 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_c1fc400f | type |
Smack on the Back | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_c1fc400f | comment |
Smack on the Back: After his fellow gangsters sing "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" to Nathan Detroit, Big Julie slaps Nathan on the back so hard that he staggers forward. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_c1fc400f | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_c67af1b0 | type |
Big Bad Wannabe | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_c67af1b0 | comment |
Big Bad Wannabe: Big Julie is the closest thing the show has to one, as he keeps the crap game going for over twenty-four hours in order to cheat his way into stealing everybody's money. However, he can only take their money by cheating, as he's actually a terrible gambler who gets cleaned out. And the only reason he can even cheat anyone is because of the physical threat he poses. When Sky arrives, he makes short work of Big Julie, punching him out and disarming him, at which point he completely exits the antagonist position, and gets strung along into helping Sky and Sarah. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_c67af1b0 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_c6b2fdd1 | type |
Fixing the Game | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_c6b2fdd1 | comment |
Fixing the Game: Big Jule's dice have had the spots removed. But he remembers "where they formerly were" and is happy to tell you what he rolled. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_c6b2fdd1 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: Many productions of the play have Lt. Brannigan wear a bright yellow raincoat and hat. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_c75df49a | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_ca87e3ec | type |
No Name Given | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_ca87e3ec | comment |
No Name Given: Of the four leads, Adelaide is the only one whose full name we never hear. Of course, given the finale is at her wedding, it's clearly about to become, or depending on if the production stages the wedding during the music break, does become Adelaide Detroit. The fact that Adelaide and other characters don't go around mentioning her last name makes sense, given she likely doesn't want to be reminded of how long she's been waiting to get married. Additionally, due to being Only Known by Their Nickname, we don't know the full names of several gamblers. Lt. Brannigan never has his first name stated either. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_ca87e3ec | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_d2c0e2ed | type |
Schmuck Bait | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_d2c0e2ed | comment |
Schmuck Bait: illustrated in the advice Sky Masterson got from his father; Later, when Nathan cons him into betting that he could take Sister Sarah to Havana, Sky puts his hand to his ear, withdraws it, and says, "Her! Cider!" | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_d2c0e2ed | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_d5574e62 | type |
Mobile Kiosk | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_d5574e62 | comment |
Mobile Kiosk: The opening scene of the movie has a pitchman and his female accomplice whose pitch is a box with fixed legs. | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_d5574e62 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_d5574e62 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_d5574e62 | |
| Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_d7c3ba61 | type |
Race Lift | |
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Race Lift: At least two major productions have featured all-black casts: the 1976 Broadway revival, and the 2017 Royal Exchange Theatre production in Manchester, UK, which reset the action in 1930s Harlem. The 2018 production at Houston's Theatre Under the Stars used East Harlem as its setting and featured a mostly Latinx cast. | |
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Church Lady | |
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Church Lady: Sarah is beautiful and pious, struggling to keep her branch of the mission afloat in a 1950s New York City full of unrepentant gamblers (which was not only seen as immoral, but illegal at the time). While she does learn to loosen up a bit around the charming gangster Sky Masterson, she manages to get Sky to stop gambling and join the mission by the time they get married at the end. | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys: It takes about a day for upright religious missionary Sarah to fall for Sky. Adelaide has the same problem with Nathan, even after he's broken her heart multiple times. | |
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Despair Event Horizon | |
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Despair Event Horizon: Nathan crosses it in the sewer, as to run this craps game, he's been forced to promise to elope, and ends up broke in a sewer for his troubles. | |
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Verbal Tic Name | |
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Verbal Tic Name: Nicely-Nicely Johnson. | |
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But Liquor Is Quicker | |
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But Liquor Is Quicker: Sky plies Sarah with a milk cocktail made with Bacardi, which he tells her is a native flavouring that contains enough alcohol to act as a preservative. In the film version, he tries to cut her off once she's had several drinks, and is seen trying to sober her up with coffee while she keeps insisting on drinking more milk. To be fair though, while Sky doesn't warn her about the alcohol, he's shown resisting her drunken advances and doesn't try any funny business with Sarah until she's sober and fully consenting. | |
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Opinion-Changing Dream | |
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Nicely-Nicely leads "Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat", which is a song about a made-up dream about a boat ride to Heaven spoiled by his sinful behavior, during the prayer meeting. | |
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Dirty Cop | |
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Lieutenant Brannigan is heavily implied to have previously been on Nathan's payroll before the events of the show where he acts as a Hero Antagonist. It's never made clear what caused his falling out with Nathan, whether it was due to any actual sense of morality, or other factors which have now caused him to try to bring Detroit down. | |
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Ensemble Cast | |
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Ensemble Cast: Somewhat. There are clear leads and supporting players, but what makes it count is that there's no true main character among the leads, with Sky, Sarah, Nathan, and Adelaide all being pretty equal in that regard. | |
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Crowd Song | |
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Crowd Song: "Luck be a Lady" and "Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat". The final reprise of "Guys and Dolls" brings the entire cast on stage in most productions as well. | |
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Confirmed Bachelor | |
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Confirmed Bachelor: Nicely Nicely Johnson and Benny Southstreet establish themselves as examples by singing an entire song about how other guys are victims of dolls. | |
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Dark Reprise | |
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Dark Reprise: While the first instance of "Adelaide's Lament" is sad in it's own right, it's still a comedic number that's performed in a way to bring down the the house. The reprise strips that element and ramps up the sadness big time. | |
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Movie Bonus Song | |
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Movie Bonus Song: Loesser wrote three new songs for the film: "Pet Me Poppa" (to replace "A Bushel and a Peck"), "A Woman in Love" (to replace "I've Never Been In Love Before") and "Adelaide" (to give Nathan a solo). | |
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Dialogue Reversal | |
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Dialogue Reversal: "Chemistry?" "Yeah, chemistry." | |
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