Loesser Known Facts
In 1944, Loesser wrote this Carol as a duet to sing at a housewarming party with his first wife, Lynn Garland. Five years later, the song won an Academy Award.
Baby It's Cold Outside
This anti-war rock musical was the subject of two separate First Amendment cases that reached the Supreme Court in the 1970s. In both instances, the court ruled in favor of the production's producers.
Hair
Celine Dion hijacks a museum tour and claims she knows what really happens to Jack and Rose in this parody musical which opened off-Broadway in 2022.
Titanique
Somebody Wonderful Married Me. It seems "Perfectly Marvelous" that this couple, currently starring in Cabaret on the West End, are married.
Eva Noblezada and Reeve Carney
The dice roles are real in this audience-driven, interactive stage show, the first theatrical production officially sanctioned by Hasbro’s Wizards of the Coast.
The Twenty-Sided Tavern
In 1952, Loesser, and celebrated orchestrator, Don Walker, transformed this fledgling business into one of the world's leading theatrical licensing agencies.
Music Theatre International
After receiving a reported settlement of one-million dollars from this impressario of musical theatre for a breach of contract, Patti Lupone affectionately named her pool after him.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Per the casting note at the beginning of her script, playwright Jaclyn Backhaus explicitly states that the cast of this play should be made up entirely of people who are not cisgender white males.
Men on Boats
Where is the girl I married? Apparently at New York City Center. This real-life couple will star opposite each other in the Encores! presentation of High Spirits in February.
Steven Pasquale and Phillipa Soo
In Guys and Dolls, Sky Masterson's first roll is a 6. He keeps rolling until he finally hits this lucky combination, which only has a three percent chance of occuring.
Hard Six (pair of threes)
In 1962, Loesser earned a Tony, Grammy and the Pulitzer Prize for this page to stage musical adaptation.
How to Succeed in Business Without Even Trying
On August 29, 2025, James Lorenzo Walker, Jr. filed a complaint against the producers of this revival alleging breach of contract, fraud, breach of fiduciary duties, and unjust enrichment.
Cabaret (at the Kit Kat Club)
This Avett Brothers' 2004 album was inspired by the true story of the sinking of this British yacht. It was released on vinyl for the first time in a year ago to mark its twenty year anniversary and the opening of the show Swept Away.
Mignonette
After co-starring in 2018's Mean Girls as Cady Heron and Aaron Samuels, this couple tied the knot in 2022. So, fetch!
Erika Henningsen and Kyle Selig
Real estate developer S.L. Green and Caesars Entertainment petitioned to build a casino in the heart of the Broadway theatre district, right above this "kingly" theater.
The Minskoff Theatre
Loesser wrote both the book and music for this musical which opened in 1956. It was the first show recorded in its entirety, released as a 3-disc set by Columbia Records.
The Most Happy Fella
In October 2018, 13 investors filed a lawsuit against producers Carl Levin and Vicki Halmos for misrepresenting this geeky show's financial status and fraudulently shutting it down weeks before opening.
Nerds, the Musical
Based on Edna Ferber's novel of the same name, this musical follows the lives of the performers, stagehands and dock workers on the Cotton Blossom.
Show Boat
Talk about night fever, they met in 2000 during the Broadway production of Saturday Night Fever. Sadly, after 23 years of marriage, they announced their separation last year.
Orfeh and Andy Karl
Put on your tux dress her up to her molars, Show her you roll with the highest rollers" are lyrics from this 2013 musical, inspired by the film of the same name.
Honeymoon in Vegas
First published in 1938, Loesser penned this popular piano duet with fellow Tin Pan Alley songwriter Hoagy Carmichael.
Heart and Soul
After pleading guilty, Mark Hotton was sentenced to 34 months in prison for fraud in connection with the financing of this Broadway musical, based on a novel by Daphne du Maurier.
Rebecca
It was just announced that Sting will reprise the role of Jackie White, a shipyard foreman next summer at The Met. Shaggy will co-star as the Ferryman in this musical, which has a new book by Barney Norris.
The Last Ship
She directed the 2022 Broadway revival of The Piano Lesson—the first August Wilson play on Broadway helmed by a woman. He starred in it. Who are they?
LaTanya Richardson Jackson; Samuel L. Jackson
It's estimated that one could construct 759,499,667,166,482 different yet similar waltzes using this parlor game popular in Western Europe during the 18th century.
Musikalisches Würfelspiel (German for "musical dice game")