Ian Charleson, Bob Hoskins, Julie Covington, Julia McKenzie and their co-stars are shown rehearsing various songs, scenes, and dance numbers for the acclaimed, award-winning National Theatre production of 'Guys and Dolls' in London, which opened March 9, 1982. Director Richard Eyre provides commentary, insight, and history; and original 1950 playwright Abe Burrows is interviewed in New York. Rehearsal footage is shown of the following numbers: "Luck Be a Lady"; "Runyonland"; "The Oldest Established"; "I'll Know"; "A Bushel and a Peck"; "Adelaide's Lament"; "If I Were a Bell"; "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat"; "Marry the Man Today"; "I've Never Been in Love Before".
—angelofvic