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PHOTO: Owen Lewis, Lou Ford and Reese Madarasz as Benny, Nicely and Charlie. (Submitted photo)
MONMOUTH – The Monmouth Community Players have announced the cast and production crew of their spring musical, “Guys and Dolls.”
The musical is based on a story and characters by Damon Runyon, with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows.
Guys and Dolls is a musical romantic comedy involving a high-rolling gambler and a puritanical missionary, a showgirl dreaming of the straight-and-narrow and a crap game manager who is anything but. Set in the Manhattan of Damon Runyon’s short stories, it tells of con man Nathan Detroit (Ethan Wright), fiancé of 14 years to Miss Adelaide (Lindsey Hall Morin), and his efforts to find new life for his illegal, but notorious, crap game. When their trusty venue is found out by Lt. Brannigan (Henry Quintal), Nathan has to find a new home for his crap game quickly – but he doesn’t have the dough to secure the one location he finds. Enter Sky Masterson (Danny Gay), a high-rolling gambler willing to take on any honest bet with a high enough reward attached. Nathan bets Sky that he can’t take the “doll” of Nathan’s choosing to Havana with him on a date. When Sky agrees to the bet, Nathan chooses uptight Evangelist Sergeant Sarah Brown (Rylee Doiron), head of Broadway’s Save-a-Soul Mission. Sky thinks he’s been duped, but he’s in for even more of a surprise when his efforts to woo Sarah are so successful that he falls in love with her himself.
The cast includes actors from across central Maine, including Ethan Wright and Rylee Doiron, of Farmington; Lindsey Hall Morin and Andy Tolman, of Readfield; Danny Gay, John Lipovsky, Raymond Fletcher, Iona McCabe, Birdie Gay and Karen Lipovsky of Monmouth; Lou Ford and Jennifer White, of Brunswick; Owen Lewis of Gardiner; Reese Madarasz of Topsham; Henry Quintal, of Augusta; Ginger Smith, of Winthrop; Debby Mansur, Ken Mansur, Mackenzie Gallo and Kyle Mansur, of Auburn; Nancy Kenneally, Nik Peterson and Charlotte Morin, of Lewiston; Jane Mitchell, of Greene; Hannah Hanson, of Waterville.
At the helm of this production are Josie French as director and Marcia Gallagher as music director. Rounding out the team are Reese Madarasz as choreographer, Debby Mansur as props mistress, Cori Ford as stage manager and costumer, and Danny Gay as producer and lighting design.
Performances are 7:30 p.m. April 21, 22, 28 and 29, and 2 p.m. April 23, 24, 29 and 30 at Cumston Hall in Monmouth.
For more information, visit monmouthcommunityplayers.org.
