Guys & Dolls Archives - North West End UK

The arrival of the big blue tent on Frinton Greensward can only mean one thing: it’s the finale of the Frinton Summer Theatre season! No big top by the beach would be complete without a West End musical and this year it’s ‘Guys & Dolls’. Set within the colourful and gritty New York gambling scene of the 1940s, this show is about the hustlers, the showgirls, the bid for salvation and love – in all its incarnations and complications. Nathan Detroit (Fabian Soto Pacheco) is a gambling man. He’s broke and in need of a place to host his craps game (a dice game where players bet on the outcomes of the roll of a pair of dice), but Lieutenant Brannigan (Barry O’Reilly) is hot on his tail. Also, his doll Miss Adelaide (Josephina Ortiz Lewis) is getting angsty after a 14-year engagement...

This production is based on the stories and characters from the 1950 books written by Damon Runyon. These stories centred on the underground crime scene of the 1920s and 1930s and was written by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows around the already established music and lyrics of Frank Loesser. The original Broadway production premiered in 1950 and has enjoyed numerous revivals over the years. The show is set in Times Square in New York City but moves along to Havana in Cuba and eventually into the underground sewers of New York, but by the end everybody ends up where they belong. The show was complimented with a live band conducted by the excellent Ed Nurse as Musical Director with, for me, a particularly impressive female reed section, although all the musicians played their parts to perfection...

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Guys & Dolls – Frinton Summer Theatre

Guys & Dolls – Forum Theatre, Romiley