Review: Guys and Dolls: Frank Loesser’s Musical Fable Is No Gamble
“Everything, from Paul Tate dePoo III’s spot-on scenic and projection design—think artful re-creations of the era’s Times Square advertisements for Mr. Peanut, Canadian Club, and TWA—to Denis Jones’ impressively acrobatic choreography (particularly the loose-limbed salsa stylings in “Havana”), is light and bright and bursting with joy.”
- Melissa Rose Bernardo, New York Stage Review
Review: ‘Guys and Dolls’ at Kennedy Center is everything a musical should be
“Choreographer Denis Jones has put together some truly stunning dance sequences for the production’s large and talented ensemble. “The Crapshooters Dance,” the most intricately choreographed number in the show, was such a showstopper that it threatened to overshadow “Luck Be a Lady,” one of the show’s most well-known songs, which has the misfortune to come in the wake of the outsized dance number.”
- Nicole Hertvik, DC Theater Arts
Review: Bet on this ‘Guys and Dolls,’ ladies and gents. It’s aces.
“Choreographer Denis Jones infuses the dance sequences with pizzazz, whether via the exhilarating gymnastics for “Luck Be a Lady” or the tangy paso dobles of the nightclub scene in Havana, to which Sky has whisked an increasingly tipsy Sarah away.”
- Peter Marks, The Washinton Post