If I said to you I have a score by Guys and Dolls’ Frank Loesser, book by Kiss Me Kate’s Sam Spewack, directed by the one and only Bob Fosse, and starring television personality Phyllis Newman, you’d probably ask where could you invest because this is gonna be bigger than talking pictures!

But, it wasn’t? Why? Why did all of these wonderful people struggle with making Russian expansion funny and musical?

Well…..why is Frank Loesser’s Pleasures and Palaces even worth talking about?

What if I told you it was the show that created the Fosse dancer. See what happened was…..well, you will need to listen to find out!

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