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.Videos