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Loesser

[ les-er ]

noun

  1. Frank (Henry), 1910–69, U.S. composer and lyricist, especially of musicals and film songs.


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By age 20, she was working for the publishing company of “Guys and Dolls” composer Frank Loesser, and would soon meet her future husband.

The production is immersive to the max; a team of scenery movers dressed as New York’s Finest parts the Bridge Theatre spectators — who can also be seated along the multitiered perimeter — for the timeless Frank Loesser numbers.

Loesser’s affectionate siphoning of New York’s native moxie inspires Hytner to his own sweet brands of inventiveness.

That warmth transforms Frank Loesser’s 1950 classic into something as touching as it is tuneful: You leave humming, and with a full heart.

Of course, Frank Loesser, Abe Burrows and Jo Swerling’s’ “Guys and Dolls” is the apotheosis of theater’s love affair with holding dice in one’s fist, on the precipice of riches, or disaster.

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