Taconic High Theatre Goes Broadway With 'Guys & Doll'
 The Taconic High Theatre is mounting a production of the musical 'Guys and Dolls' this weekend. |
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Taconic High School Theatre is producing "Guys and Dolls: A Musical Fable of Broadway" this weekend.
Shows are Thursday, Friday and Saturday, March 26-28, at 7 p.m. and a matinee at 2 on Saturday at the high school. Tickets are $10 and are available at the door.
The musical romantic comedy involves the unlikeliest of Manhattan pairings: a high-rolling gambler and a puritanical missionary, a showgirl dreaming of the straight-and-narrow and a craps game manager who is anything but. Set in the Manhattan of Damon Runyon's short stories, "Guys and Dolls" tells of con-man Nathan Detroit's efforts to find new life for his illegal, but notorious, craps game.
When their trusty venue is found out by the police, Nathan has to find a new home for his game quickly — but he doesn't have the dough to secure the one location he finds. Enter Sky Masterson, a high-rolling gambler willing to take on any honest bet with a high enough reward attached. Nathan bets Sky that he can't take the "doll" of Nathan's choosing to Havana, Cuba, with him on a date. When Sky agrees to the bet, Nathan chooses uptight Sgt. Sarah Brown, head of Broadway's Save-a-Soul Mission. Sky thinks he's been duped, but he's in for even more of a surprise when his efforts to woo Sarah are so successful that he falls in love with her himself.
"Guys and Dolls" moves from bustle of Times Square to the dance clubs of Havana to the sewers of New York City as it demonstrates the great lengths to which a guy will go when he truly falls in love with a "doll."
The musical features some of Frank Loesser's most memorable tunes, including the "Adelaide's Lament," "I've Never Been in Love Before," "If I Were a Bell" and the classic "Luck be a Lady."
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