Best yet...
Still buzzing from Guys and Dolls at the Bridge Theatre.
This has had rave reviews from its Press Night (last night) and thoroughly deserves them.
Nicholas Hytner (Director) makes his theatre work its socks off – set in the round this is a promenade performance, in part, with a crowd of audience (who would have been seated in the missing stalls) moving around a set which rises and falls in blocks around and amidst them, ably ushered by crew dressed (appropriately) mainly as New York cops.
Frank Loesser managed a hatful of show stopping numbers, with narry a dud amongst them – I first saw the film of this when it came out in 1955 – my father had seen the 1950 Broadway production and insisted we saw the film – and the songs from then (and his original cast LP) are burned into my memory – but this production was, frankly, as good – and Daniel Mays (Nathan Detroit) far surpasses Frank Sinatra’s dialled in performance. The Broadway 
original Nathan (Sam Levene) would have been far better casting for the film. He couldn’t actually sing, so there is only one song in the show for him, but he could act, as can Mays.
The real singers in the show are Marisha Wallace (Miss Adelaide); Celinde Schoenmaker (Sarah Brown); Andrew Richardson (Sky Masterson) and (especially) Cedric Neale (Nicely-Nicely Johnson) – who brought the house down with his ‘Sit Down, You’re rocking the Boat’ where his added Gospel tonality was especially pleasing and apt. His three (prepared) encores were well deserved.
Arlene Phillips manages very tight choreography (her dancing and movement spaces are comparatively tiny).
Overall this is as good a production as I have seen of this musical. If you can, see it. And it keeps on extending - now to mid 2024!