Division of Theatre Arts, Production and Arts Administration Presents

Guys and Dolls
A Musical Fable of Broadway

Oct. 19-27, 2018 Corbett Auditorium

Based on a Story and Characters of Damon Runyon
Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser
Book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows

Director and Choreographer Diane Lala 

Musical Director Roger Grodsky

 

Scenic Designer Thomas C. Umfrid

Lighting Designer Nicholas Smith*

Sound Designer Jason Sebastian

Dialect Coaches D’Arcy Smith + Kate Webster

Costume Designer Reba Senske

Wig & Make-Up Designer Meredith Keister*

Production Stage Manager Caroline Castleman*

Fight Choreographer k. Jenny Jones

Props Master Sidney Martin*

* CCM Student

 

Guys and Dolls is presented through special arrangement with Musical Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI, 423 West 55th Street, New York, NY 10019 Tel.: 212-541-4684 Fax: 212-397-4684 www.MTIShows.com

The video or audio recording of this production is prohibited.

The University of Cincinnati does not discriminate on the basis of disability, race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, age, sexual orientation, veteran status or gender identity and expression in its programs and activities. The complete Notice of Nondiscrimination can be found at uc.edu/about/policies/ non-discrimination.

 

Director's Notes

Guys and Dolls opened on Broadway in 1950. Based on the stories of Damon Runyon and subtitled, “A Musical Fable of Broadway,” it has been saluted as the perfect musical comedy. In Runyon’s mythical and idealized New York, it tells the tale of gamblers and the women who love them. It is where a diverse population — including gamblers, missionaries and show girls — comes together and even falls in love.

CCM Musical Theatre is celebrating its 50th Anniversary in 2018-19. As we begin our year of “Moving Forward, Looking Back,” we start by looking back with this wonderful golden age musical. Runyon loved the people of the Big Apple, and many of his short stories celebrated the world of Broadway in New York City. Guys and Dolls is based off of Runyon’s The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown and Blood Pressure. Please enjoy our production of Guys and Dolls, and thank you for your support throughout the years.

Diane Lala,
Director and Choreographer

 

The Company

Nicely-Nicely Johnson | NICK BERNINGER

 

Benny Southstreet | SAM PICKART

 

Rusty Charlie | HANK VON KOLNITZ

 

Sarah Brown | ARIA BRASWELL

 

Arvide Abernathy | DAIN ALAN PAIGE+

 

Harry the Horse | MICHAEL CANU

 

Lt. Brannigan | STONE MOUNTAIN

 

Nathan Detroit | KEVIN CHLAPECKA^/MATT COPLEY*

 

Angie the Ox | ANDREW ALSTAT

 

Miss Adelaide | KENDALL MCCARTHY^/ANYA AXEL*

 

Sky Masterson | FRANKIE THAMS

 

Joey Biltmore | ELI MAYER

 

Hot Box MC | DYLAN DOUGAL

 

Mimi | BRYN PURVIS

 

General Matilda B. Cartwright | ELLE ZAMBARANO

 

Big Jule | ELIJAH KING

Mission Band

Agatha | SOFIE FLORES

 

Calvin | COLE HARKSEN

 

Martha | BRITTA RAE

 

Hot Box Girls | BAILEE ENDEBROCK, JAMIE GOODSON, ZOE GROLNICK, BRYN PURVIS

 

Tower Boys | LEO CARMODY, CHRISTIAN FELICIANO, KAI HORVIT, CHRISTIAN KIDD, DREW MINARD, ELI OWENS, AARON RICHERT, SAMMY SCHECHTER

 

Ensemble | ANDREW ALSTAT, KURTIS BROWN, MICHAEL CANU, DYLAN DOUGAL, SOFIE FLORES, HALEY HOLCOMB, CHIP HAWVER, JACK JOHNSON, JOSHUA JOHNSON, ELI MAYER, JORDAN MILLER, BRITTA RAE, MIKAYLA RENFROW, ERICH W. SCHLECK, VERONICA STERN, QUINN SURDEZ, HANK VON KOLNITZ, ETHAN ZEPH

 

Dance Captain | BRYN PURVIS

Understudies

Nicely-Nicely Johnson | ERICH W. SCHLECK

 

Benny Southstreet | ANDREW ALSTAT

 

Sarah Brown | MIKAYLA RENFROW

 

Sky Masterson | ETHAN ZEPH

 

Swings | ANNA CHASE LANIER, BRANDON SCHUMACKER

Musical Numbers

Act I

Overture | ORCHESTRA

 

Scene 1: Broadway

Runyonland | ORCHESTRA

 

Fugue for Tinhorns | NICELY, BENNY, RUSTY

 

Follow the Fold  | SARAH, MISSION BAND

 

The Oldest Established | NATHAN, NICELY, BENNY, GUYS

 

Scene 2: Interior of the Save-a-Soul Mission

I’ll Know | SARAH, SKY

 

Scene 3: A Phone Booth

 

Scene 4: The Hot Box

A Bushel and a Peck  |  MISS ADELAIDE, HOT BOX GIRLS

 

Adelaide’s Lament | MISS ADELAIDE

 

Scene 5: A Street Off Broadway

Guys and Dolls | NICELY, BENNY

 

Scene 6: Exterior of the Mission, Noon, the next day

 

Scene 7: Off Broadway

 

Scene 8: Havana Club

Havana | ENSEMBLE

 

Scene 9: Outside El Café Cubano

If I Were a Bell | SARAH

 

Scene 10: Exterior of the Mission

My Time of Day/I’ve Never Been in Love Before  | SKY, SARAH

Act II

Entr’acte | ORCHESTRA

 

Scene 1: The Hot Box

Take Back Your Mink | MISS ADELAIDE, HOT BOX  GIRLS

 

Adelaide’s Lament (Reprise) | MISS ADELAIDE

 

Scene 2: West 48th Street

More I Cannot Wish You  | ARVIDE

 

Scene 3: The Sewer

The Crapshooters’ Ballet | GAMBLERS

 

Luck Be a Lady | SKY, GAMBLERS

 

Scene 4: West 48th Street

Sue Me |  MISS ADELAIDE, NATHAN

 

Scene 5: Interior of the Save-a-Soul Mission

Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat | NICELY, COMPANY

 

Scene 6: A Newsstand in Times Square

Marry the Man Today | MISS ADELAIDE, SARAH

 

Scene 7: Return to Runyonland

The Happy Ending | COMPANY

Cast Profiles

Anya Axel, Miss Adelaide
Senior from Needham, Massachusetts 
At CCM: Phyllis Foster in Mack and Mabel, Tricia (Cassie/Shelia/Maggie u/s) in A Chorus Line, Ensemble in Jesus Christ Superstar, Seussical, Frou-Frou (Grisette) in The Merry Widow, Christine in American Idiot.
Elsewhere: Laurie in Oklahoma! at Kincaid Regional Theatre Company (Falmouth, Kentucky), Ensemble in 42nd Street at Reagle Music Theatre (Waltham, Massachusetts).

Nick Berninger, Nicely-Nicely Johnson
Junior from Wayne, New Jersey
At CCM: Priest in Jesus Christ Superstar, Horton u/s in Seussical, Fatty Arbuckle in Mack and Mabel, Uncle Vadim in Nasha America (Musical Theatre Incubator Project), Big John in Home Street Home (Musical Theatre Incubator Project).
Elsewhere: Emcee in Cabaret, Scuttle/Chef Louis in The Little Mermaid, Annas in Jesus Christ Superstar, Mr. Bumble in Oliver! at Clinton Area Showboat Theatre (Clinton, Iowa).

Aria Braswell, Sarah Brown
Senior from San Antonio, Texas
At CCM: Erin Mackey in Sondheim on Sondheim, Woman 2 in They Were You, Jou-Jou (Grisette) in The Merry Widow. Elsewhere: Ariel in The Little Mermaid at Clinton Area Showboat Theater (Clinton, Iowa), Patti Simcox in Grease at Wagonwheel Center for the Arts (Warsaw, Indiana).

Michael Canu, Harry the Horse
Junior from Detroit, Michigan
At CCM: Ensemble in Jesus Christ Superstar, Ensemble Mack and Mabel.
Elsewhere: Sky in Mamma Mia!, Snowboy in West Side Story, Henry in Newsies at Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre (Winchester, Virginia), Ren McCormack in Footloose at Clinton Area Showboat Theatre (Clinton, Iowa).

Kevin Chlapecka, Nathan Detroit
Senior from Chicago, Illinois
At CCM: The Cat in the Hat in Seussical, Mr. Kessel in Mack and Mabel, the King in Big River.
Elsewhere: Sam/Carl standby in Ghost, Ensemble in Sister Act at the Lake Dillon Theatre Company (Keystone, Colorado), Ren in Footloose at Kincaid Regional Theatre (Falmouth, Kentucky), Warren in Ordinary Days at Steel Beam Theatre (St. Charles, Illinois).

Matt Copely, Nathan Detroit
Junior from Marine City, Michigan
At CCM: Apostle in Jesus Christ Superstar, Vlad Vladikoff in Seussical, Storyteller in Children of Eden.
Elsewhere: Ren McCormick in Footloose, Romeo in Newsies at Wagon Wheel Center for the Arts (Warsaw, Indiana), Jimmy in Thoroughly Modern Millie at Riverbank Theatre (Marine City, Michigan).

 

etc., etc., etc...

The Village News

Alumni Applause

Alt

Phillip Johnson-Richardson (BFA Musical Theatre, 2018) is currently in the ensemble of Hamilton in Chicago, where he is also an understudy for the title role as well as Hercules Mulligan and James Madison. The recent graduate has already had the opportunity to portray Alexander Hamilton in several performances of the hit musical. CCM audiences will remember him from his performance as Pontius Pilate in the 2017-18 Mainstage production of Jesus Christ Superstar. 

Pamela Myers (BFA Musical Theatre, 1969) was the first graduate of CCM’s Musical Theatre program. She recently returned her alma mater to perform in the sold-out Musical Theatre Birthday Cabaret celebrating 50 years of musical theatre excellence at CCM. Myers made her Broadway debut as Marta in the original cast of Stephen Sondheim’s Company, where she introduced the show-stopping number “Another Hundred People.” She was nominated at the 1971 Tony awards for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical, and she appeared in the 2002 Broadway revival of Into the Woods. 

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Ben Sloan (BM Jazz Studies, 2011) received a $10,000 grant last year from People’s Liberty to build East Price Hill’s Percussion Park, an outdoor musical playground of percussion instruments. This year, he was an Artist-in-Residence at The National’s Homecoming Music Festival and briefly toured with the rock band. He has recently toured with other groups, including Cincinnati’s A Delicate Motor, and has participated in experimental music festivals and performances around the world. Sloan teaches at MYCincinnati, an after-school youth orchestra for children in Price Hill.

Raven Thomas (BFA Musical Theatre, 2016) started her professional career in the performing arts shortly after graduating from CCM by joining the national tour of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton, which won 11 Tony Awards in 2016. Recently, Thomas announced that she will be joining the Broadway production of Hamilton. Cincinnati audiences may recognize her from CCM’s Musical Theatre Birthday Cabaret, as well as the 2015 Mainstage production of Carousel, where she played the role of Mrs. Mullin. Thomas also played the role of Pilar in CCM’s 2014 Mainstage production of Legally Blonde.

Orchestra

Roger Grodsky, Musical Director and Conductor

 

Henry Lewers, Associate Musical Director and Conductor

 

Jeremy Robin Lyons, Assistant Musical Director and Rehearsal Pianist

CCM Concert Orchestra

Violins

Yuezi Wu, concertmaster

Peiyan Cai

Po-Hsing Tsai

Jiayi Sun

Linke Zhou

Yuchen Luo

Mable Lecrone

Ally Oakes 

Bingjie Wang, concertmaster

Daniel Geisel

Grace Brown

Yuanchun Wu

Sophie Wohl

Yeonkyeong Ju

Linke Zhou

 

Cellos

Nick Zhao

Carter Langmack

Zach Cochran

Nicholas Tsang 

Elizabeth Lee

Myles Yeazell

Jacqueline Pegis

Jade Siebert

 

Bass

Peter McCutcheon

 

Flute/Piccolo

Youbeen Cho

 

Oboe/English Horn

Mitchell Rollins

 

Bassoon

Donald Forman

 

Clarinet/Alto Saxophone

Hector Gagnet

 

Flute/Clarinet/Alto Saxophone

Erick Miranda

 

Clarinet/Bass Clarinet/Tenor Saxophone

Christian Paradiso

 

Flute/Clarinet/Tenor Saxophone

Wenbo Yin

 

Bass Clarinet/Baritone Saxophone

Carly Hood Horn

Phillip Palmore

 

Trumpets

Bryant Bewley

Andrew King

Blake Woolsey

 

Trombone

James Smith

Kyle Davidson~

 

Percussion

Declan Hayden

Zach Webb

 

Piano/Celeste

Jeremy Robin Lyons