Guys and Dolls - casting announced for W/E extension
Casting news
CASTING for the West End extension of Guys and Dolls has been announced and the line up includes multiple Olivier Award-winning actress Samantha Spiro as Miss Adelaide, Richard Kind as Nathan Detroit and Oliver Tompsett as Sky Masterson.
Continuing in their roles from the Savoy to the Phoenix Theatre are Siubhan Harrison as Sarah Brown, and Gavin Spokes as Nicely Nicely Johnson.
Completing the new cast at the Phoenix Theatre are Billy Boyle as Arvide and Jason Pennycooke as Benny, with the rest of the cast transferring from the Savoy Theatre: Lucy Jane Adcock, Abigail Brodie, Cornelius Clarke, Momar Diagne, Lavinia Fitzpatrick, Lorna Gale, Nic Greenshields, Selina Hamilton, Frankie Jenna, Alec Mann, Jacob Maynard, Genevieve Nicole, William Oxborrow, Max Parker, Carl Patrick, James Revell, Giovanni Spano, Jonathan Stewart, Lucie Mae Sumner and Liam Wrate.
Richard Kind’s theatre credits include award-winning Broadway hit The Big Knife, The Producers, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, Candide and Bounce. His film work includes Argo (2013 Academy Award for Best Picture), the critically acclaimed and multi-award winning Inside Out, Hereafter, A Serious Man, The Visitor, The Station Agent, A Bug’s Life and Cars. He has also appeared on television in Spin City and Mad About You.
Samantha Spiro’s theatre credits include A Christmas Carol (Noël Coward Theatre); Di and Viv and Rose (Vaudeville Theatre); Kafka’s Dick (Theatre Royal Bath); Macbeth and The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare’s Globe); Filumena (Almeida Theatre), Hello Dolly (Regent’s Park), winner of the 2010 Best Actress in a Musical Olivier Award; Funny Girl (Chichester Festival Theatre); A Little Night Music (Chicago Shakespeare’s Theatre), winner of the 2004 Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical; and Merrily We Roll Along (Donmar Warehouse), winner of the 2001 Olivier Award and Whatsonstage.com Award for Best Actress in a Musical.
Spiro has also appeared on screen in Me Before You, A Running Jump, Tomorrow La Scala!, From Hell, Cor Blimey and Beyond Bedlam (film); London Spy, Coupling, Cold Feet, Noble & Silver and The Bill (TV).
Oliver Tompsett’s theatre credits include Galileo in We Will Rock You (Dominion Theatre), Drew Boley in the original London cast of Rock of Ages (Shaftesbury Theatre), Fiyero in Wicked (Apollo Victoria Theatre), White Christmas (West Yorkshire Playhouse), The World Goes Round (St James Theatre), The Royal Hunt of the Sun (Royal National Theatre), CATS (Cyprus), Mamma Mia! (Prince of Wales Theatre), Our House (Cambridge Theatre), Kismet (Arcola Theatre), Over My Shoulder (Wyndhams Theatre) and Tony in West Side Story (Canizzaro Park Festival).
His film work includes The Hard Way.
Guys and Dolls is directed by Gordon Greenberg, who has directed plays and musicals at major theatres across America and Europe, written for television and stage, and runs the musical theatre program at The New Group in New York, where he is based. He directed the current revival of Guys and Dolls for Chichester Festival Theatre, which is now running at the Savoy Theatre and in October 2016, he will direct his adaptation of Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn on Broadway at Studio 54 for Roundabout Theatre Company and Universal Pictures Stage Productions.
Guys and Dolls is based on a story and characters by Damon Runyon and finds Nathan Detroit desperate. He needs money for an illegal dice game, and he needs it fast. Not to mention a 14-year engagement with nightclub singer Miss Adelaide, whose patience is finally running out. Enter notorious gambler Sky Masterson, a guy who can never turn down a bet, and straight-laced missionary Sarah Brown, a doll with a heart of ice.
Nathan’s wager is that Sky has to romance Sarah by taking her to Havana for dinner and in return he’ll provide a dozen ‘sinners’ for Sarah’s mission. Surely this is one bet Nathan absolutely can’t lose?
Guys and Dolls continues at the Savoy Theatre until March 12, before reopening at the Phoenix Theatre on March 19, 2016.
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A separate production with a completely new cast will embark on a nationwide UK tour, opening at the Liverpool Empire on March 16, 2016, with further details to be announced shortly.