Guys and Dolls is a musical with a book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, music by Frank Loesser, and lyrics by Swerling and Burrows. The story is based on the 1933 short stories "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure" by Damon Runyon, and the characters from the Damon Runyon story were originally introduced in the musical's predecessor, the 1950 Broadway show Runyonland, also written by Swerling and Burrows and composed by Loesser. The title derives from two Runyon phrases, "guys and dolls" and "the oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York."
The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) is a musical drama with music by Kurt Weill and lyrics by Bertolt Brecht. The story is set in a poverty-stricken area of Victorian London, and it follows the adventures of the con artist Mack the Knife.
The Threepenny Opera was first performed in Berlin in 1928, and it was later adapted into several other languages and productions, including the English-language version by Marc Blitzstein that premiered in 1954.
Guys and Dolls was first performed on Broadway in 1950, and it was later adapted into several other productions, including a 1955 film.
The musical Guys and Dolls is based on the 1933 short stories "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure" by Damon Runyon.