Guys and Dolls (Decca Broadway). If you can’t make it up to the Berkshires to see Barrington Stage’s revival of Frank Loesser’s masterpiece, then grab the CD version of the original-cast album. George S. Kaufman’s still-celebrated 1950 Broadway production is gone with the wind and the movie version was lousy, but the hard-nosed punch of the singing of Robert Alda, Isabel Bigley, Vivian Blaine, and Stubby Kaye was preserved for all time by Decca, complete with George Bassman’s delectably brassy orchestrations. Accept no substitutes! (TT)
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