Which Broadway musical features the song “Luck Be a Lady”?

“Luck Be a Lady” is a song from the Broadway musical Guys and Dolls.

Frank Loesser wrote the music and lyrics for Guys and Dolls, which opened on Broadway in 1950. The musical combines characters and situations drawn from short stories by Damon Runyon, whose fictional New York gamblers, hustlers, and police officers speak in distinctive slang.

In the show, gambler Sky Masterson sings “Luck Be a Lady” while trying to win a high-stakes craps game. The number became one of the musical’s most recognizable standards and is strongly associated with Frank Sinatra, who recorded a famous version for the 1965 film adaptation, even though the song originated in the stage musical.

The original Broadway production starred Robert Alda as Sky Masterson, Sam Levene as Nathan Detroit, Isabel Bigley as Sarah Brown, and Vivian Blaine as Miss Adelaide. “Luck Be a Lady” is sometimes mistaken for a Sinatra original, but Loesser wrote it specifically for Guys and Dolls.