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Audition Announcement: Guys & Dolls 
March 14, 2023
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GUYS & DOLLS

PRESENTED IN THE WILSON AUDITORIUM

Book By: Abe Burrows & Jo Swerling

Music & Lyrics By: Frank Loesser

Based on The Idyll of Sarah Brown and characters by Damon Runyon

Director: Aaron Nichols & Robert Tombari

Music Director: Roy Bronkeman

Choreographer: Nikki Pittman

Synopsis:

Considered by many to be the perfect musical comedy, Guys and Dolls ran for 1,200 performances when it opened on Broadway in 1950. It received nearly unanimous positive reviews from critics and won a bevy of awards, including Tony Awards, Drama Desks and Oliviers. Frequently revived, the show has been done with numerous all-star casts, including productions/concerts featuring Ewan McGregor, Jane Krakowski, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Jessica Biel.

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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IMPORTANT DATES

AUDITIONS

Monday, April 10 @ 6-9 pm
Tuesday, April 11 @ 6-9 pm

South Bend Civic Theater
403 N. Main Street
South Bend, IN 46601

REHEARSAL SCHEDULE

Rehearsals are Monday-Friday 6-9:30pm

Beginning June 1st

*some small group workshops before, depending on cast availability 

There are no Saturday or Sunday rehearsals until tech week. 

TECH WEEK

April 11-15, 2023

Call Backs

Wenesday April 26, 2023

LIVE SHOWS

    • Thursday June 15 at 7:30pm — PAY WHAT YOU CAN DRESS REHEARSAL

    • Friday June 16 at 7:30pm

    • Saturday June 17 at 7:30pm

    • Sunday June 18 at 2:00pm

    • Wednesday June 21 at 7:30pm

    • Thursday June 22 at 7:30pm

    • Friday June 23 at 7:30pm

    • Saturday June 24 at 7:30pm

    • Sunday June 25 at 2:00pm

    • Friday June 30 at 7:30pm — Performance at Howard Park

    • Saturday July 1 at 7:30pm

    • Sunday July 2 at 2:00pm

    What To Prepare

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    Additional Information

    Audition/Callback location: South Bend Civic- 403 N. Main Street, South Bend, Indiana — Enter through main doors off Main Street

    ROLES

    *When considering roles you’d like to audition for, be aware that many roles are flexible in terms of gender, age, and ethnicity. 

    The part of Sky Masterson will be played by Alastair Willis. All other roles will be cast from the CIVIC’s open auditions on April 10-12.

    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 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: 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 40
    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 70
    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 50
    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 45
    Vocal range top: E5
    Vocal range bottom: A3
    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: 35 to 55
    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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