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Guys and Dolls

Heritage Theatre 

Tuesday December 2nd and Wednesday December 3rd

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Callbacks will be held Saturday December 6th from 8:30 to 12:30 PM and will be by invitation only.

 

Director: Beth Bruner

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Auditions 

• Those planning to audition should prepare 16 bars of a song in the style of the show and a 1 minute comedic monologue.  Please do not run over.

• Auditions will be limited to those 14 and older who can also pass for an adult on stage and handle their role with responsibility and consistency in performance. 

• Video auditions will only be accepted with prior arrangement with the director. Send an email to bethbdirector@gmail.com

• Callbacks will consist of reading from the script, singing sections from the show and dancing. Please come dressed prepared to move. 

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Sign up for an audition time HERE.

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 Rehearsals 

• First rehearsal will be on December 13th. We will do cast introductions and read through the script.

• From December 20th to January 4th rehearsals will only be held on Saturdays. 

• Rehearsals will typically be Tuesday - Thursday evenings and Saturday mornings. Monday rehearsals may be added after January 18th and daily rehearsals will begin February 2nd. 

• Tech Rehearsal is scheduled for Saturday, February 2nd and may last most of the day.

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 Casting  

• All roles are open.

• Heritage Theatre Utah encourages diversity and inclusion in all their productions. Performers of all ethnic backgrounds are encouraged to audition.   

• The Director may be looking for individuals with gymnastics experience or individuals who play a band instrument (marching band).

• Please be aware, the characters in this show portray certain acts like drinking alcohol, gambling and possibly smoking. 

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Show Summary

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.

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Characters 

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: 25 to 50
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: 25 to 50
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: 25 to 35
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 up
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: 25 to 65
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 65

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: 35 to 45
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: 30 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 60
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, Cuban Dancers

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