“Valentine”
“Paul Revere”
“Epitaph”
Darn you, dropzone! I’m gonna have that spiel looping over and over in my head now!
Grr! shakes fist ineffectually
- “undoubtedly”
- Please see “pet SDMB hates” thread over in IMHO
ETA: nice one, dropzone 
Except with a cast of hundreds, maybe thousands rather than twenty. There weren’t more people with real roles, so far as I am aware, but there were more more burlesque dancers, more gamblers, more people in just about every scene.
(Disclaimer: I’m not sure whether I’ve seen it once or twice live. I know I saw it done professionally on a smallish stage, I just can’t remember whether I’ve seen in done by a high school group or an amateur group as well.)
For those that are interested, the film version of Guys and Dolls is showing on TMC on August 1st at 4:15 pm Central. Set your DVRs.
StG
Looks like some of us tinhorns got things a little mixed up. The correct sequence is:
Epitaph!
Valentine!
Paul Revere!
But “Equipoise” does fit in, in Rusty Charlie’s lyric about Epitaph’s bloodline:
Wait just a minute, boys.
I’ve got the feed box noise
It says his great-grandfather was Equipoise
I am very glad we did not bet on this, as I would have got cider squirted in my ear!
ETA: I got curious about our “Fugue for Tinhorns” here, so I pulled out my DVD of Guys and Dolls, just to check.
… And I just finished watching the DVD. What a great show! Chef Troy, I’m glad to hear that you and your daughter enjoyed the show; and as for me–I’m looking forward to when our local amateur troupe does the show again.
Spoons
“Benny Southstreet”
“I was always a bad guy, and a bad gambler. I wanna be a good guy, and a good gambler. I thank you.”
I forgot to mention that before the show, Lil’ Miss Sous-Chef and I went to our local Half-Price Books to see if they had the soundtrack for “G&D” – they didn’t, but we did find a DVD of “West Side Story” that she begged me to buy. She’s already watched it several times.
(Why did she want me to buy it? Because WEEKS ago, she was watching our copy of season one of “The Muppet Show,” and saw a sketch with a hideous monster singing “I Feel Pretty.” I’d told her the name of the show it came from and the skeleton outline of the story. She remembered.)
AND “West Side Story” will be coming to Dallas this October, and she’s already informed me that we WILL be going to see it. knuckles away a tear of happiness
The ONLY sympathetic line in that entire musical was Frank Sinatra’s " … sue me … I love you."
Update: While we were out of town on vacation, I ran across a copy of the 1955 movie at a going-out-of-business Borders (I was there with the other buzzards to pick bargains from the flyblown corpse). I bought it, and Lil’ Miss Sous-Chef and I watched it with much enjoyment. The Playbill from the show we saw called the movie “disappointing,” but we both thought it was good, even though Lil’ Miss Sous-Chef was scandalized that the producers replaced “Bushel and a Peck” with some ridiculous cat-themed number. I was openmouthed at the spectacle of Brando singing and dancing. Still think they should have cast Sinatra as Sky Masterson and Danny Kaye as Nathan Detroit, though.
Sinatra wanted to be Sky real bad. He and Brando had difficulty working together on the set in part because of that. Their differences in acting methods were also a problem; Sinatra preferred one-and-done, while Brando always asked for more takes, which drove Sinatra up a wall.
There’s the famous story about filming the scene when Nathan and Sky meet at Mindy’s Diner. Like Bosstone said, Sinatra liked to get each scene over and done with as quickly as possible. But Brando (quite deliberately) blew take after take after take until the working day was over. All the while, Sinatra could do nothing but fume and keep eating one slice of cheesecake (which he hated) after another. The next morning they returned to the set and Brando breezed through the scene on the first try.
Oh, and I was Nicely Nicely, thank you, back in high school. At a parochial school. And I don’t recall ever hearing of a single complaint about the content.