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Guys & Dolls - April 2026
With music by Frank Loesser and a book by Abe Burrows and Joe Swerling, ‘Guys & Dolls’ is considered by many to be the perfect musical comedy. Set in Damon Runyon's mythical New York City, the story follows gambler Nathan Detroit, as he tries to find the cash to set up the biggest craps game in town while the authorities breathe down his neck; meanwhile, his girlfriend and nightclub performer, Adelaide, laments that they've been engaged for fourteen years. Nathan turns to fellow gambler, Sky Masterson, for the dough, and Sky ends up chasing the straight-laced missionary, Sarah Brown, as a result. ‘Guys and Dolls’ takes us from the heart of Times Square to the cafes of Havana, Cuba, and even into the sewers of New York City, but eventually everyone ends up right where they belong.
Launch Night: 20th November 2025 | 7.30pm | St Peter’s Hall, Limpsfield
Dance Workshop: 25th November 2025 | 7.30pm | St Peter’s Hall, Limpsfield
Auditions: 30th November 2025 | from 3pm | Hurst Green Community Centre
Director: Fern Simmons - Musical Director: Philippa Lucas - Choreographer: Eloise Hogben.
Applications are closed.
Guys & Dolls: Character List
Meet the Characters
*Please use the playing ages as a guideline, but we will be happy to see anyone audition for any part – you never know what might work!
Sky Masterson
A high-stakes gambler whose luck never seems to run out, and a wild card who surprises
himself when he falls in love with the unlikeliest of women. Suave, smart, handsome.
Gender: Male | Playing Age: 20 to 35 | Vocal range top: E5 | Vocal range bottom: B3
Sarah Brown
A pretty, bright-eyed woman who serves as Sergeant of the local Mission. She fully believes
in her worthy cause and wishes to convert the gambling sinners to saints. Falls unexpectedly in love with Sky along the way. She is prudish and uptight, but eventually lets go.
Gender: Female | Playing Age: 20 to 35 | Vocal range top: G5 | Vocal range bottom: B3
Nathan Detroit
A good-hearted gambler and craps game organizer who could never hit the bigtime. He loves Adelaide, but cannot quit his gambling ways. A broke schemer with unwitting ways.
Gender: Male | Playing Age: 35 to 45 | Vocal range top: F5 | Vocal range bottom: D4
Miss Adelaide
Nathan's fiancé and a lead performer at the Hot Box nightclub. She loves Nathan more than anything in the world and desperately wants to get married. Pretty, outspoken, stubborn.
Gender: Female | Playing Age: 30 to 45 | Vocal range top: E5 | Vocal range bottom: A3
Arvide Abernathy
The bass drum and cymbal player in the Mission band, he is Sarah's loving grandfather. Wise and sweet, he wants nothing but the best for her.
Gender: Male | Playing Age: 50 to 65 | Vocal range top: F5 | Vocal range bottom: D4
Nicely-Nicely Johnson
Just like his name suggests, he is the nicest and cheeriest of the gambling crooks. High-
spirited and a bit naïve, but sincere and genuine. Nathan's loyal friend and lackey.
Gender: Male | Playing Age: Any Age | Vocal range top: B5 | Vocal range bottom: D4
Benny Southstreet
Nathan's right-hand man and a gambler himself. Smart, slick, always moving and shaking,
but with what he thinks are Nathan's best interest at heart.
Gender: Male | Playing Age: Any Age | Vocal range top: G5 | Vocal range bottom: D4
Harry the Horse
A crook and gambler. He is a tough guy with dollar signs as his bottom line. Brings Big Jule into Nathan's craps game and backs his cheating, but is also a man of his word in the
gambling community.
Gender: Male | Playing Age: Any Age | Vocal range top: G5 | Vocal range bottom: F3
Rusty Charlie
A small-time gambler who is a sidekick of Nicely and Benny.
Gender: Male | Playing Age: Any Age | Vocal range top: | G5 Vocal range bottom: D4
Lt. Brannigan
A New York police officer who is on to Nathan's illegal craps games and is dead-set on
catching him. A tough, no-nonsense character.
Gender: Male | Playing Age: 40 to 60
General Matilda B. Cartwright
Regional representative for the mission. She is powerful, matronly, and no-nonsense.
Gender: Female | Playing Age: 40 to 60 | Vocal range top: A5 | Vocal range low: A3
Big Jule
A big time craps player from Chicago who uses a gun and his own pair of rigged dice to bully his way into never losing. Tough looking. A bit of an oaf.
Gender: Male | Playing Age: Any Age | Vocal range top: G5 | Vocal range bottom: F3
Hot Box Girls/Dancers
All ages and vocal ranges. Nightclub Dancers who are backup performers with Adelaide. The dances and song lyrics have some playfulness and innuendo. They are just a little naughty, but not raunchy like Kit Kat dancers from Cabaret. These ladies at least put on an air of sophistication. Mimi comes from this group. They may also be used in other ensemble roles.
Ensemble
New Yorkers, Sightseers, Mission Band (incl. Agatha, Calvin, Martha), Crap Shooters (incl. Liver Lips Louie, Angie The Ox), Waiters, Havana Dancers.
The ensemble are instrumental to this show, and will be playing multiple roles to bring the world of ‘Guys & Dolls’ to life.
Applications are now closed.
About Us
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Our charity was “born” in 1947 – an offshoot of the Oxted Evening Institute, under the aegis of Frank and Norah Sowerby. Its first production – “The Yeomen of the Guard” was presented in 1947 to mark the reopening of the Barn Theatre after the Second World War. It was presented under the name of “The Oxted Singers” but this had become "Oxted Operatic Society" for the second production – “The Mikado” – in 1948.
For the first ten years, the Society performed only Gilbert and Sullivan operettas with one production each year. However, by 1957, audience numbers had dwindled and the finances were dangerously low. The Musical Director, Len Maynard, proposed a change with a musically demanding opera – “Hugh the Drover” but this was not supported by the membership and was abandoned.
It was essential for the future of the Society to stage a show that could be cheap to dress and stage, with all costs kept to a minimum. “The Lilac Domino” was chosen and this proved to be a turning point in the Society’s fortunes, from which they have never looked back. Only one other show has ever been cancelled since then, that was “State Fair” in the year 2000.
Up to 1963, only one show each year had been performed – in that year “Free as Air” and “The Mikado” were produced, with two again in 1965. From 1971 onwards, two shows each year became the custom. To date the Society has presented over 115 shows. The Society has been gratifyingly successful over the ensuing years with consistently good audiences and it has enjoyed a reputation for the quality of its productions, as evidenced by a number NODA awards.
For many years, the Society has been able to cast its productions within its membership, which has always been the cornerstone of its casting policy. Undoubtedly the success enjoyed by the Society owes much to having its home at the Barn Theatre and appreciation of this has been shown over the years by much financial support of the theatre. Typical of this was the sponsorship by the Society of 35 seats when the theatre was re-seated in 1991.
The Society remained Oxted Operatic Society until its AGM in January 2020, when as part of a modernisation and re-branding process, the members unanimously voted to change its name to ‘Oxted Musical Theatre Company’.
The Society is well supported by a growing ‘acting’ membership of both adults and juniors, together with an enthusiastic body of Life Members, Vice Presidents and Patrons.
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