Guys and Dolls
A Musical Fable of Broadway
Based on a Story and Characters of Damon Runyon
Music and Lyrics by:
FRANK LOESSER
Book by:
JO SWERLING and ABE BURROWS
Licensed exclusively by Music Theatre International (Australasia).
All performance materials supplied by Hal Leonard Australia
Guys and Dolls is a musical romantic comedy involving the unlikeliest of Manhattan pairings: a high-rolling gambler and a puritanical missionary, a showgirl dreaming of the straight-and-narrow and a crap game manager who is anything but.
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Set in the Manhattan of Damon Runyon’s short stories, Guys and Dolls tells of con-man Nathan Detroit’s efforts to find new life for his illegal, but notorious, crap game. When their trusty venue is found out by the police, Nathan has to find a new home for his crap game quickly - but he doesn’t have the dough to secure the one location he finds. Enter Sky Masterson, a high-rolling gambler willing to take on any honest bet with a high enough reward attached. Nathan bets Sky that he can’t take the “doll” of Nathan’s choosing to Havana, Cuba, with him on a date. When Sky agrees to the bet, Nathan chooses uptight Evangelist Sergeant Sarah Brown, head of Broadway’s Save-a-Soul Mission. Sky thinks he’s been duped, but he’s in for even more of a surprise when his efforts to woo Sarah are so successful that he falls in love with her himself!
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Guys and Dolls takes us from the bustle of Times Square to the dance clubs of Havana to the sewers of New York City as it demonstrates the great lengths to which a guy will go when he truly falls in love with a “doll.” Guys and Dolls features some of Frank Loesser’s most memorable tunes, including “Sit Down, You’re Rocking the Boat”, “Adelaide’s Lament”, “I’ve Never Been in Love Before,” and the classic “Luck Be a Lady.”
Cast
Samantha Sherrin – Sister Sarah Brown
Jacob Ballard – Sky Masterson
Kaitlyn Burton – Miss Adelaide
Russell Morgan – Nathan Detroit
Stuart Fisher – Nicely-Nicely Johnson
James Burton – Benny Southstreet
Simon Drew – Harry the Horse
Bohdan (Bob) Polowyj – Lieutenant Brannigan
Grant Couchman – Arvide Abernathy
Jacqui Cuny – General Cartwright
Luke Ralph – Big Jule
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Ensemble
Alyssa Myers · Amanda Devlin · Amy McCormick · Ava Keller
Bailey O'Mara · Brent Jeffrey · Cameron McAndrew · Grace Jen
Grace Sinclair · Hamish McAndrew · Jasmine Muir · Jessica Mutzelburg
Kaiden Grennan · Kamryn Mutzelburg · Louise Clarke · Martin Bird
Oscar Fisher · Sophie Coyne · Sophie Hudson · Taylah Cooper · Tobey Ogilvie