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.

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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.

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

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

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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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