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 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! Guys and Dolls takes us from 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 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’.

This production was in association with BASINGSTOKE AMATEUR THEATRICAL SOCIETY

CREATIVE TEAM

Director and Choreographer
RAY JEFFERY

Musical Director
NEIL STREETER

Additional Choreography
NICK BRANNAM

Assistant to the Director
DI ANNAKIN

Stage Manager
NICKI HAWKINS

Deputy Stage Manager
KATE DOOLEY

Assistant Stage Managers
NATALIE RANDALL

STEVE BRANNAM

HIRE SERVICES

Lighting Design

JOHN JONES

ROBERT WILSON

Additional Lighting Hire

VIKING STAGE LIGHTING

Sound Design and Hire

Dan Paine – SPINAUDIO

Scenery Hire

SCENIC PROJECTS LTD

Costumes

ALAN GRAHAM OF DURHAM

BEN SHALLOW

ADRIEN NORTIER

PRESS REVIEWS

“…showcases tremendous choreography, as does much of the production, as good use is often made of the upper level of the staging.”

Basingstoke Gazette  – Read full review

“The show opens with a scene which must have been complex to choreograph but which sets the tone for the show – plenty of people, plenty of colour, comedy, slick dancing and robust, tuneful singing.”

Farnham Herald – Read full review

“Highlights were Luck Be a Lady and Sit Down You’re Rocking the Boat,”

Newbury Weekly News  – Read full review