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Cast
| Benny Southstreet | Terry Wall |
| Nicely-Nicely Johnson | Simon Griffin |
| Rusty Charley | David Cronk |
| Sarah Brown | Helen Craycroft-Rice |
| Arvide Abernathy | Mike Cawson |
| Agatha | Pat Bowditch |
| Harry the Horse | Neil Weatherhead |
| Lieutenant Brannigan | Steve Pleasance |
| Nathan Detroit | Mike Sharpe |
| Joey Biltmore | Nick Bane |
| Society Max | Quentin Beddall |
| Miss Adelaide | Alison Wareham |
| Sky Masterson | Nick Wareham |
| Big Julie | Kit Mead |
Choruses
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Mission
Band
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Hustlers
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Hot
Box Girls
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| Sandra Horner | David Cronk | Rae Bane |
| Laura Gentry | Donald Cameron | Catherine Bowden |
| Sarah Acton | Max Hopkinson-Fagan | Jenny Crow |
| Hannah Craycroft-Rice | Ronan O'Donnell | Claire Harris |
| Sarah Macnamee | Thomas Parcell | Mo Rootes |
| Jessica Muirhead | Scott Tuite | Laura Smith |
| Rosanna Pemberton | James Ward | Christine Spencer |
| Jocelynne Rees-Howell | Jessica Bane | |
| Gemma Smith | Claire Burrell | |
| Charlotte Spark | Sarah Carey | |
| Philippa Crow | ||
| Emma Davenport | ||
| Annie Ganguli | ||
| Danille Sievewright | ||
| Geraldine Spencer |
Behind the Scenes
| Director |
Mike Sharpe |
| Musical Director | Jeremy Pemberton |
| Band | Jeremy Pemberton, Nigel Bailey, James Bruce, Richard Elcock & Jonathan Greek |
| Choreographer | Susan Lucas |
| Producer | Alison Wareham |
| Assistant Producer | Marian French |
| Stage Management | Alison Cameron & Sarah Pleasance |
| Set Design | Mandy Owen with help in scenery painting from Janet Smith, Charlotte Richards, Sarah Hurrell, Emma Atherton, Mags Underhay and Year 5 & 6 |
| Lighting | James Clarke |
| Wardrobe | Jo Hagon with help from Shirley Algar, Liz Lawson, Jo Clark, Sarah Weartherhead, Sally Hildrew, Dot O'Reilly and Julia BoonAskelof |
| Props | Tesney Carey |
| Make-up | Judy Jones with help from Debbie Tuite, Pat Russell, Barbara Dyson, Hepzi Pemberton, Tina Sievewright and Carmen Robinson |
| Artwork | Elinor Cole |
| Publicity | Marian French |
| Programme | Mike Cawson |
| Sponsorship | Rosemary Zanders |
| Treasurer | Sally Charter |
| Secretary | Jane Bowden |
| Front of House | Liz Elbourn and Sally Charter with help from Annie Davenport and Janet Beddall |
| Bar | Jeremy Cole with help from Nick Charter, Ian McCluish, Alan Mansey and others |
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Synopsis
This year our musical is brought to you from the lively streets around Broadway in New York City. The musical was written by Frank Loesser in 1949 who based it on a short story by Damon Runyon called The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown. Runyon was born in Kansas in 18884 and moved to New York in 1910 where he was a reporter. He was always to be found "where the big story was".
The first few paragraph of Runyon's story set the scene for Guys and Dolls and introduce Sky Masterton:
Of all the high players this country ever sees, there is no doubt that the guy they call The Sky is the highest. In fact, the reason he is called The Sky is because he goes so high when it comes to betting on any proposition whatever. He will bet all he has, and nobody can bet more than this.
His
right name is Obadiah Masterton, and he is originally out of a little
town in southern Colorado where he learns to shoot craps, and play cards,
and one thing and another, and where his old man is a very well-known
citizen, and something of a sport himself. In fact, The Sky tells me
that when he finally cleans up all the loose scratch around his home
town and decides he needs more room, his old man has a private talk
with him and says to him like this:
"Son," the old guys says, "you are now going out into
the wide, wide world to make your own way, and it is a very good thing
you do, as there are no more opportunities for you in this burg. I am
only sorry, " he says, "that I am not able to bank-roll you
to a very large start, but "he says, "not having any potatoes
to give you, I am going to stake you to some very valuable advice, which
I personally collected in my years of experience around and about, and
I hope and trust you will always bear this advice in mind."
"Son," the old guys says, "no matter how far you travel,
or how smart you get, always remember this: some da, somewhere,"
he says, "a guy is going to come to you and show you a nice brand-new
deck of cards on which the seal is never broken, and this guy will offer
to bet you that the jack of spades will jump out of this deck and squirt
cider in your ear. But son," the old guys says, "do not bet
him, for sure as you do, you are going to get an ear full of cider."
A later paragraph does the same for Miss Sarah Brown:
There are only four of these missions workers, and two of them are old guys, and one is an old doll, while the other is a young doll who is tootling on a cornet. And after a couple of ganders at this young doll, The Sky is a goner, for this is one of the most beautiful young dolls anybody ever sees on Broadway, and especially as a mission worker. Her name is Miss Sarah Brown.
Enjoy our show……