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The Stevenage
Lytton Players present Guys & 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 This amateur production is presented by arrangement with JOSEF WEINBERGER LTD. on behalf of MUSIC THEATRE INTERNATIONAL of NEW YORK. 18th to 21st October 2017 The Gordon Craig Theatre Stevenage Director – Slava Budin-Jones Musical Director - Derek Blyth Choreographer - Sera Dinmore Producers - Debbie Woolley |
The Stevenage Lytton Players Autumn 2017 Production was Guys & Dolls performed at the Gordon Craig Theatre.
Synopsis
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. 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 discovered 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! Guys and Dolls takes us from the bustle of Times Square to the dance
clubs of Havana and 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
the hilarious “Adelaide’s Lament,” the romantic “I’ve Never Been in Love
Before,” the exuberant “If I Were a Bell,” and the classic “Luck Be a Lady.” .
First Get Together
Wednesday 31st May - Meet the production
team, talk through, Q&A, learn audition songs
Audition & Character Information
Click here for details
Ticket Prices :
£19.00 (£17.00c Wed, Thurs & Sat Matinee)
Performances start at 7:45 (evenings) and 2:30
(Matinee)
SLP Box Office: 01438 357407
Gordon Craig Theatre Box Office: 01438 363200