This production is a sure winner.įor full show information, check out the Guys & Dolls page at Theatre In Chicago. Loesser’s music is in fine hands with Ryan T. His Guys & Dolls is tight, swift and thoroughly engaging. Raftery demonstrates a keen eye for detail as a first-time director. Raftery’s choreography is smart and expertly performed. It never needs to be reinvented, it only needs a committed respectful production as director Matt Raftery has mounted. Guys & Dolls is a fun musical comedy fable that easily entertains. Bernie Yvon, George Andrew Wolff and George Keating nailed their zany characters most effectively. Jessie Mueller’s Adelaide, Rod Thomas’ Nathan Detroit and Brian Hissong’s Sky Masterson together with Abby Mueller’s Sarah led the way with complete performances. Guys and Dolls will put a spring in your step and a smile on your face and remind you how much fun it is to see a top-notch classic musical Tickets are available for purchase online at or by. The humor is infectious the singing is fine and the staging is brisk and compelling. This fun show is light weight yet sophisticated musical comedy. All this frenzy produces cute numbers such as “Bushel and a Peck,” “If I Were a bell,” Luck Be a Lady, ” and “Sit Down You’re Rockin’ the Boat.” The events get complicated when Shy rolls the dice for a $1,000 versus the souls to 12 gamblers (sinners) as he tries to help Sarah save her mission. Brannigan (Michael Aaron Linder) pressure Nathan and the gamblers trying to stop the dice games. Meanwhile Adelaide pressures Nathan Detroit to marry. As Masterson is swindling Sarah, he falls in love with the holy roller. Nathan hopes to win the $1,000 necessary for the dice game. Gambler Nathan Detroit (the terrific Rod Thomas) and his 14 year finance Adelaide (a fabulous turn by Jessie Mueller) spare over marriage as Detroit is desperate to finance a dice game with so many high-rollers in town.ĭetroit bets Sky Masterson (the debonair Brian Hissong) that he can’t take Salvation Army girl Sarah Brown on a date to Cuba. Sarah Brown (Abby Mueller) and Arvide Abernathy (Roger Mueller) are the crusaders. The lowlifes are aided by the Christian missionaries bent on saving their souls.
The gamblers, led by Nicely (George Andrew Wolff), Benny (Bernie Yvon) and Rusty (George Keating), harmonize the “Fugue for Tinhorns” in one of the most recognizable show tunes of all times. The bouncy swing/jazz score by Frank Loesser starts us toe-tapping immediately. This is a fresh, energetic and hilarious production true to the 1950 original.įrom the opening number, “Runyonland,” we get the atmosphere of Broadway in the late 1940’s as gamblers and show girls rule the late night Manhattan streets. Director/Choreographer Matt Raftery respectful of the rich score and zany humor has cast a fine troupe of Equity actors that play the vivid and lovable characters for all their cartoon fable foibles. You can gamble on Marriott Theatre’s Guys & DollsĬalled the perfect classical musical comedy with a zesty brilliant score, Guys & Dolls is the kind of show that doesn’t need to be tinkered with.
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