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July 9-24, 2005

Based on a story and characters
by Damon Runyon
Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser
Book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows

Musical Director
TODD HELM

Choreographer
LEE MARTINO

Director
NICK DeGRUCIO

Honorary Producer:
Sara Wenkle Kaplan

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By Kimberly O'Gorman for the Long Beach Press Telegram
'Guys and Dolls' looks at 1950s New York

Described by director Nick DeGruccio as "one of the most perfectly written and constructed musical comedies of our times," "Guys and Dolls' opens Saturday at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach.

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By Les Spindle for Backstage West
Guys and Dolls

Big Apple mobsters and their sassy dames that cries out for garishly bright sets and costumes, and oversized performances. One can almost see those dialogue balloons floating over the characters' heads.

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PRESS ROOM

Considered by many to be the perfect musical, GUYS & DOLLS soars with the spirit of Broadway as it introduces us to a cast of vivid characters out of the world of Damon Runyon. This colorful and high-energy story of high-rolling crapshooters and their "dolls" features a fast-paced book and Frank Loesser's most memorable score, including "Luck Be A Lady," "If I Were A Bell," "I'll Know," and "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat."

REVIEWS

By David C. Nichols, Special to The Times
Can do, these 'Guys' can do
In the deft hands of Musical Theatre West, this classic musical rings like a bell.

Reviewing "Guys and Dolls" in 1950, critic Brooks Atkinson said, "It is a more coherent show than some that have higher artistic pretensions." He was right - Frank Loesser, Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows' ageless riff on Damon Runyon is a perfectly constructed classic, as the superb Musical Theatre West revival demonstrates.

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By James Scarborough for the Grunion Gazette
MTW's "Guys and Dolls" Shines

If you want to experience a rare phenomenon when script, cast and enactment meld to form a lustrous whole, get thee to the Carpenter Performing Arts Center to see Musical Theatre West's excellent song-studded production of Frank Loesser's "Guys and Dolls," directed by Nick DeGrucio.

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STARRING

KEVIN EARLEY
(as Sky Masterson)
TAMI TAPPAN DAMIANO
(as Sarah Brown)

 


PATRICK DeSANTIS
(as Nathan Detroit)
BETS MALONE
(as Miss Adelaide)