Full Cast Announced For GUYS AND DOLLS At CFT, August 2014

The full cast has been announced for Guys and Dolls, the first musical to be staged at Chichester's Festival Theatre this summer following a major redevelopment.

Clare Foster plays Sarah Brown. Her previous Chichester credits include The Master and Margarita and Out of This World. Other credits include West End productions of Merrily We Roll Along, Crazy for You, for which she received a Whatsonstage.com Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical, and Avenue Q.

Jamie Parker plays Sky Masterton. His Chichester credits include Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (also West End). Other credits include Proof (Menier Chocolate Factory), Henry V, Henry IV Part I and Henry IV Part 2 (all for Shakespeare's Globe), and The History Boys (National Theatre, Broadway and Australia and Hong Kong).

Peter Polycarpou plays Nathan Detroit. His Chichester credits include The Pajama Game, Sweeney Todd and Love Story, all of which have transferred to the West End. Other credits include the West End productions of LES MISERABLES, Miss Saigon and The Secret Garden, Oklahoma! for the National Theatre, and the popular BBC sitcom, Birds of a Feather.

Sophie Thompson plays Miss Adelaide. Theatre credits include Clybourne Park (Royal Court) for which she received Olivier and Evening Standard Award nominations, Into The Woods (Donmar Warehouse) for which she received an Olivier Award and Company (Donmar Warehouse and West End) for which she received an Olivier Award nomination. She is well known to TV viewers for her role as Stella Crawford in EastEnders.

The Guys and Dolls cast also includes Etian Almeida, Karen Aspinal, Lucy Banfield, John Brannoch, Stephanie Bron, Nic Greenshields, Mark Heenehan, Ian Hughes, Daniel Ioannou, Melissa James, Anabel Kutay, Melanie La Barrie, Lucinda Lawrence, Adam Margilewski, Neil McCaul, Harry Morrison, Michael Peters, Carl Sanderson, Nick Wilton and Matthew Whennell-Clark.

Based on colourful stories about New York gamblers by Damon Runyon, the production will be directed by Gordon Greenberg, with choreography by Carlos Acosta, both making their debuts at Chichester.

Guys and Dolls will be at the Festival Theatre, Chichester from 11 August - 21 September. For further information visit cft.org.uk or contact the Box Office on 01243 781312.