Ten years ago, Frank Music, the last grail and quirky hang-out for music lovers in Manhattan closed its midtown doors. That ended a memorable run of a business enterprise begun in the late `40s by – ...

CHATHAM, N.Y. — If the Mac-Haydn Theatre’s mediocre, at best, presentation of “Guys and Dolls” demonstrates anything, it is about why this 1950 Frank Loesser musical is a classic in the fullest sense ...

Loesser grew up in New York and moved to Hollywood in 1936 to write songs under contract for Paramount and Universal. Over three decades, he penned the scores to more than 60 films and wrote the ...

Music Box Players will present the Frank Loesser musical “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” on Fridays through Sundays from Sept. 13 to Sept. 29 at the Music Box Dinner Playhouse, 196 ...

Baby, It’s Frank Loesser kicks off the new year as Jazz at Lincoln Center American Songbook celebrates the legendary songs of Frank Loesser. This Songbook Sundays swings Loesser’s classics from Guys ...

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Does the road to Broadway begin at a dinner theater in Sarasota? Consider the case of Greenwillow, the Frank Loesser musical receiving its first professional production in 37 years at the Golden Apple ...

Guys and Dolls (music & lyrics by Frank Loesser; book by Jo Swerling & Abe Burrows; produced by Feuer & Martin) whizzes through the whole first act hardly once having to stop for a light. If the ...

Songs just popped into his head. Or so Frank Loesser liked to say. “Of course,” he would concede, “your head has to be arranged to receive them. Some people’s heads are arranged so that they keep ...

When Broadway musical composer Frank Loesser wrote his shows, he made demo recordings to demonstrate to the cast what the songs sound like. Those demos were discovered years later by Joseph Weiss, the ...