Guys & Dolls

 

Music & Lyrics by Frank Loesser
Book Jo Swerling & Abe Burrows
Based on The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown by Damon Runyon

Directed and Choreographed by PJ Terranova
Music Directed by Jenny Tsai

 

Audition Dates:
Sunday, January 17, 2016 @ 7:00PM
Monday, January 18, 2016 @ 7:00PMCall Backs:
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 @ 7:00PM
 

 

Audition Requirements

- 32 bars of music in the style of the show
- Actors who are called back will be asked to read sides from the show and/or learn a  short dance combination
- Picture and Resume

 

Please call Samantha Bestvina at 617-361-7024 to schedule an appointment.

 

Performance Dates:
May 13, 14, 20 & 21, 2016 @ 8:00 PM
May 15 & 22, 2016 @ 3:00 PM

About the Show:
Set in a mythical New York City, Gambler Nathan Detroit tries to find the cash to set up the biggest craps game in town. While his girlfriend, Adelaide, laments their 14 year engagement, Nathan turns to fellow gambler Sky Masterson for the dough. Sky ends up chasing the straight-laced missionary Sarah Brown from the heart of Times Square to the cafes of Havana, Cuba, and even into the sewers of New York City.

Character Descriptions 

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 45
Vocal range top: B5
Vocal range bottom: D4

 

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 top: G5
Vocal range bottom: D4

 

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 30
Vocal range top: G5
Vocal range bottom: B3

 

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 65
Vocal range top: F5
Vocal range bottom: D4

 

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 top: G5
Vocal range bottom: F3

 

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 bigtime. He loves Adelaide, but cannot quit his gambling ways. A broke schemer with unwitting ways.
Gender: Male
Age: 35 to 45
Vocal range top: F5
Vocal range bottom: D4

 

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. Pretty, outspoken, stubborn.
Gender: Female
Age: 25 to 35
Vocal range top: E5
Vocal range bottom: A3

 

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 the unlikeliest of women. Suave, smart, handsome.
Gender: Male
Age: 35 to 45
Vocal range top: E5
Vocal range bottom: B3

 

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: 30 to 50
Vocal range top: G5
Vocal range bottom: F3

 

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