Character Breakdowns
Guys and Gals
Music Theater Works is excited to receive general submissions for our upcoming show of Guys and Dolls. The creative team includes: Sasha Gerritson (Director), Linda Madonia (Music Director), and Clayton Cross (Choreographer). The audition submissions are due by Monday, October 21, 2024. Auditions will only be accepted through the Google Form in this link:https://forms.gle/7GsQ2gmnhxKe1BQi9
Below are MTW’s policies, period of engagement, and the Guys and Dolls character breakdowns. Please send all questions about casting to casting@musictheaterworks.org. All phone calls will be directed to the casting email. We are looking forward to seeing your submissions!
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 Age: 30 to 45 Vocal Range: D4 to B5
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 Age: 30 to 45 Vocal Range: D4 to G5
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 Age: 20 to 30 Vocal Range: B3 to G5
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 Age: 50 to 65 Vocal Range: D4 to F5
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 Age: 35 to 55 Vocal Range: F3 to G5
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: Any Age: 40 to 55
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 Age: 35 to 45 Vocal Range: D4 to F5
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 Age: 25 to 35 Vocal Range: A3 to E5
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 Age: 35 to 45 Vocal Range: B3 toE5
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. Large in stature and tough looking. A bit of an oaf.
Gender: Male Age: 30 to 50 Vocal Range: F3 to G5
General Cartwright – General Cartwright is the formidable leader of the Save-a-Soul Mission organization. Powerful, matronly, no-nonsense with a
formidable presence and, it transpires, a sense of humor.
Gender: Female Age: 40-60
Ensemble – Sightseers, Mission Band (Agatha, Calvin, Martha), Crap Shooters (Liver Lips Louie, Angie The Ox, Rusty Charlie), Hot Box Girls, Waiters, Cuban Dancers