Guys and Dolls

Directed by Jane Flieller
June 25–28, 2026
Fond du Lac High School PAC

Auditions

Auditions will be open to all actors age 16 and up. Open audition sessions will be held at STEM Academy, 401 S Military Rd, in the gymnasium. Audition sessions will be held at the following times:

March 5 (Thursday), 6–9 p.m.
March 7 (Saturday), 1–4 p.m.

If you cannot make either of the audition times, please email the director at janedigschris@gmail.com.

Auditionees should prepare about 32 bars of upbeat music in the style of the show, showcasing your range. There will be an accompanist at auditions, and we will also provide a Bluetooth speaker if you would like to play a backing track from your phone.

At the audition, we will provide excerpts from the script for auditionees to read. We will also teach a short dance combo to anyone auditioning for roles that require dancing.

Rehearsals

Rehearsals will begin Monday, April 20, 2026 with rehearsals Mon-Thr, 6p-9p and Saturdays from 10a-2p, respecting conflicts received at the time of auditions. Tech week will begin June 20, and performances will be held June 25-28.

About the Show

Guys and Dolls is a classic 1950 Broadway musical featuring the beloved story of gamblers and showgirls in 1940s New York. Crapshooter Nathan Detroit sets his sights on the biggest craps game of his career while Adelaide, his fiancee of 14 years, longs for a wedding. With a colorful cast gambling in luck and love from Times Square to Havana, this show features memorable songs “Luck Be a Lady,” “Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat” and “Adelaide’s Lament.”

Roles

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Rusty Charlie
Small-time gambler, part of Nathan Detroit’s crew.

Ensemble
Sightseers, Mission Band (Agatha, Calvin, Martha), Crap Shooters (Liver Lips Louie, Angie The Ox), Hot Box Girls, Waiters, Cuban Dancers