Presented By: Cottonwood Heights Arts Council.
Show: Guys and Dolls.
Directed By: Michelle Yamazaki.
Open Call Auditions (18 and older): Friday, March 17th, from 6-9pm. And Saturday, March 18th, from 9am – 12pm.
Location: Cottonwood Heights City Hall, 2277 East Bengal Blvd.
Show Dates: July 7th, 8th, 10th, 13th, 14th & 15th.
For more information about auditions please visit CHCITYARTS.COM or email events@ch.utah.gov.
Preparing for your open-call audition (18 and older)
- Fill out this audition form before arriving, if possible, and view the character descriptions
- If you will be submitting a video audition, call Anna Kelsch at 385-266-7308
- Bring the following:
- Theater resume
- Current headshot (you can get this back after callbacks, if needed)
- Audition form
- 15-30 bars of prepared music (about 30-45 seconds)
- We will provide a keyboard and speaker with plug-in options, but you must bring your own accompanist
- Dance ensemble participants are not required to sing but will be asked to do a double pirouette and a time step (give it your best shot!)
- Visit this page Monday, March 20, at 5 p.m. to see callbacks
- Callbacks will be held Friday, March 24 (only if needed), and Saturday, March 25, at City Hall
- Callbacks are held by invitation only. You must attend in person to be considered for a role.
- Visit this page Wednesday, March 29, at 5 p.m. to see the final cast list
Guys and Dolls Roles
Roles include age that the character is played as (actor/actress actual age could be younger or older) Minimum age to audition is 18
Cast Size: 30 (estimated)Sky Masterson – Lead role
Character Breakdown: A high-stakes gambler whose luck never seems to run out, and a wild card whosurprises himself when he falls in love with the unlikeliest of women. Suave, smart, handsome. Character: Male
Able to play age: 35 to 45
Vocal range top: E5 Vocal range bottom: B3Dance requirements: Some dance/movement ability required
Sarah Brown – Lead role
Character Breakdown: A pretty, bright-eyed woman who serves as Sergeant of the local Mission. Shefully 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. Character: Female
Able to play age: 20 to 30Vocal range top: G5 Vocal range bottom: B3
Dance requirements: Some dance/movement ability requiredNathan Detroit – Lead role
Character Breakdown: A good-hearted gambler and craps game organizer who could never hit thebigtime. He loves Adelaide, but cannot quit his gambling ways. A broke schemer with unwitting ways. Character: Male
Able to play age: 35 to 45
Vocal range top: F5 Vocal range bottom: D4Miss Adelaide – Lead role
Character Breakdown: Nathan’s fiancé and a lead performer at the Hot Box nightclub. She loves Nathanmore than anything in the world and desperately wants to get married. Pretty, outspoken, stubborn. Character: Female
Able to play age: 25 to 35
Vocal range top: E5 Vocal range bottom: A3Dance requirements: Dancing ability required
Nicely-Nicely Johnson – Supporting role
Character Breakdown: Just like his name suggests, he is the nicest and cheeriest of the gamblingcrooks. High-spirited and a bit naïve, but sincere and genuine. Nathan’s loyal friend and lackey. Character: Male
Able to play age: 30 to 45
Vocal range top: B5 Vocal range bottom: D4Benny Southstreet – Supporting role
Character Breakdown: Nathan’s right-hand man and a gambler himself. Smart, slick, always moving andshaking, but with what he thinks are Nathan’s best interest at heart. Character: Male
Able to play age: 30 to 45
Vocal range top: G5 Vocal range bottom: D4Arvide Abernathy – Supporting role
Character Breakdown: The bass drum and cymbal player in the Mission band, he is Sarah’s lovinggrandfather. Wise and sweet, he wants nothing but the best for her. Character: Male
Able to play age: 50 to 65
Vocal range top: F5 Vocal range bottom: D4Harry The Horse – Supporting role
Character Breakdown: 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.
Character: Male
Able to play age: 35 to 55Vocal range top: G5 Vocal range bottom: F3
Big Jule – Supporting role
Character Breakdown: A big time craps player from Chicago who uses a gun and his own pair of riggeddice to bully his way into never losing. Tough looking. A bit of an oaf. Character: Male
Able to play age: 30 to 50
Vocal range top: G5 Vocal range bottom: F3Lt. Brannigan – Minor role
Character Breakdown: A New York police officer who is on to Nathan’s illegal craps games and isdead-set on catching him. A tough, no-nonsense character. Character: Male
Able to play age: 40 to 55Rusty Charlie – Cameo
Character Breakdown: Sings the trio ‘Fugue for Tinhorns’ with Nicely & Benny.Character: Male
Able to play age: 20 to 45
Vocal range top: Db3 Vocal range bottom: F4General Matilda B Cartwright – Cameo
Character Breakdown: Regional representative of the Salavation Army. Powerful, matronly,no-nonsense with a formidable presence and, it transpires, a sense of humour. Character: Female
Able to play age: 40 to 70
Vocal range: Female mezzoHot Box Girls – Chorus
Character Breakdown: A chorus of performers who back-up Adelaide in her nightclub act. Strongdancing, singing and character performance required. They perform 2 numbers with Adelaide & will double into other aspects of the ensemble.
Character: Female
Able to play age: 18 to 35Dance requirements: Strong dancing required.
***There are 4 named Hot Box Girls: Mimi, Allison, Ferguson, Vernon***Ensemble – Playing multiple roles, some with lines (Minor roles) Sightseers
Gangsters/Dolls
Salvation Army Mission Band (Agatha, Calvin, Martha) Crap Shooters (Liver Lips Louie, Angie The Ox) Waiters
Cuban Dancers
Joey Biltmore
Master of Ceremonies
DrunkDance Ensemble – Featured in dance scenes, no singing required
Featured male and female dancers will be required for the Opening in Runyonland and Broadway, Havana Sequence and male dancers for the Crapshooters Dance. They may double into the ensemble.
