The cities and dates for the previously announced UK national tour of the smash London Guys and Dolls revival have been announced.
The tour will kick off at Glasgow's King's Theatre on September 16th and play engagements in Cardiff, Stoke, Woking, Birmingham, Plymouth, Sunderland, Milton
Keynes, Manchester, Nottingham, Sheffield, Southampton, Oxford and
Liverpool, where it will wrap up at the Liverpool Empire on June 9th, 2007. No casting has been set for the tour.
A Broadway transfer is also planned for the production, which will likely bow sometime during the 2006-2007 season.
Broadway
casting has not been announced, but producer Howard Panter was previously stated in Variety that he has big
names in mind. "The appetite from New York theatre owners is there,
and we're in discussion with two major
stars, but it's like a jigsaw: We're all dependent on fitting in with
director Michael Grandage's dates and he's very busy."Guys and Dolls opened in London on June 1st, 2005 with a lustrous cast in tow--Ewan McGregor (as
Sky Masterson), Jane Krakowski
(as Miss Adelaide), Russell (as Sarah Brown) and Douglas Hodge (as
Nathan Detroit). The show, which has been a big commercial hit, also
received a strong
critical reception. Directed by Michael Grandage and choreographed by
Tony Award-winner Rob Ashford (who will reunite for the upcoming London Evita revival), the show is a somewhat grittier
interpretation of the classic musical, which is set in a New York world
of gamblers, gangsters, chorus girls and Sarah Brown, a Salvation Army girl who
wants to reform all of them. Of course, Sarah also
falls in love with gambler Sky Masterson.
The production currently features Sally Ann Triplett as Miss Adelaide, Adam Cooper as Sky Masterson, Kelly Price as Sarah Brown and Neil
Morrissey as Nathan Detroit. The musical is produced by the Donmar Warehouse, The Ambassador Theatre Group and Live
Nation in association with Arielle Tepper
and David Binder, Tulchin/Bartner Productions and IC
Productions.
Guys and Dolls opened
at the 46th Street Theatre on November 24th, 1950 and won the 1951 Tony
Award for Best Musical. Running for 1,200 performances, it featured
Robert Alda, Vivian Blaine, Isabel Bigley and Sam Levene as its leads.
Based on the stories of Damon Runyon, Guys and Dolls
features a score by Loesser and a book by Abe Burrows and Jo
Swerling. There have been 3 Broadway revivals, and a 1955 film starred Marlon Brando, Blaine,
Frank Sinatra and Jean Simmons.The West End revival of Guys and Dolls
is currently booking through September 2nd. It was also announced in
October of 2005 that the musical is likely to transfer to Broadway.
For more information on the Guys and Dolls tour or on the London production, visit www.guysanddollsthemusical.com.
