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Considered by many to be the perfect musical comedy, Guys and Dolls ran for 1,200 performances when it opened on Broadway in 1950. It received nearly unanimous positive reviews from critics and won a bevy of awards, including Tony Awards, Drama Desks and Oliviers.

Set in Damon Runyon’s mythical New York City, Guys and Dolls is an oddball romantic comedy. Gambler, Nathan Detroit, tries to find the cash to set up the biggest craps game in town while the authorities breathe down his neck; meanwhile, his girlfriend and nightclub performer, Adelaide, laments that they’ve been engaged for fourteen years. Nathan turns to fellow gambler, Sky Masterson, for the dough, and Sky ends up chasing the straight-laced missionary, Sarah Brown, as a result. Guys and Dolls takes us from the heart of Times Square to the cafes of Havana, Cuba, and even into the sewers of New York City, but eventually everyone ends up right where they belong.

• Nicely-Nicely Johnson: Just like his name suggests, he is the nicest and cheeriest of the gambling crooks. High-spirited and a bit naïve, but sincere and genuine. Nathan’s loyal friend and lackey.

  • Gender: Male

  • Age: 30 to 50

  • Vocal range: D4 to B5

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• Benny Southstreet: Nathan’s right-hand man and a gambler himself. Smart, slick, always moving and shaking, but with what he thinks are Nathan’s best interest at heart.

  • Gender: Male

  • Age: 30 to 45

  • Vocal range: D4 to G5

• Sky Masterson: A high-stakes gambler whose luck never seems to run out, and a wild card who surprises himself when he falls in love with missionary Sarah Brown.

  • Gender: Male

  • Age: 30 to 45

  • Vocal range: B3 to E5

• Sarah Brown: A pretty, bright-eyed woman who serves as Sergeant of the local Mission. She fully believes in her worthy cause and wishes to convert the gambling sinners to saints. Falls unexpectedly in love with Sky along the way. She is prudish and uptight, but eventually lets go.

  • Gender: Female

  • Age: 20 to 40

  • Vocal range:  B3 to G5

• Arvide Abernathy: The bass drum and cymbal player in the Mission band, he is Sarah’s loving grandfather. Wise and sweet, he wants nothing but the best for her.

  • Gender: Male

  • Age: 50 to 70

  • Vocal range: D4 to F5

• Harry The Horse: A crook and gambler. He is a tough guy with dollar signs as his bottom line. Brings Big Jule into Nathan’s craps game and backs his cheating, but is also a man of his word in the gambling community.

  • Gender: Male

  • Age: 35 to 55

  • Vocal range: F3 to G5

• Lt. Brannigan: A New York police officer who is on to Nathan’s illegal craps games and is dead-set on catching him. A tough, no-nonsense character.

  • Gender: Male

  • Age: 40 to 55

• Nathan Detroit: A good-hearted gambler and craps game organizer who could never hit the big time. He loves Adelaide, but cannot quit his gambling ways. A broke schemer with unwitting ways.

  • Gender: Male

  • Age: 35 to 50

  • Vocal range: D4 to F5

• Miss Adelaide: Nathan’s fiancé and a lead performer at the Hot Box nightclub. She loves Nathan more than anything in the world and desperately wants to get married. Outspoken and stubborn.

  • Gender: Female

  • Age: 25 to 45

  • Vocal range: A3 to E5

• Big Jule: A big time craps player from Chicago who uses a gun and his own pair of rigged dice to bully his way into never losing. Tough looking. A bit of an oaf.

  • Gender: Male

  • Age: 35 to 55

  • Vocal range top: F3 to G5

• Ensemble: Sightseers, Mission Band (Agatha, Calvin, Martha), Crap Shooters (Liver Lips Louie, Angie The Ox, Rusty Charlie), Hot Box Girls, Waiters, Cuban Dancers

• Thursday, July 6 – Sunday, July 9

• Thursday, July 13 – Sunday, July 16

• TThursday, July 20 – Sunday, July 23

Weekend and evening rehearsals; willing to work around cast conflicts if necessary.

Theater policy states that all actors and staff must be vaccinated.

Actors will receive a small stipend per performance.