Guys and Dolls - Auditions

Reserve your spot and prepare your audition today to be a part of our area high school production of Guys and Dolls. 

Any current high school student is invited to audition for this summer’s production of Guys and Dolls. Students will check in at the BDACT lobby with our Stage Manager prior to their signed-up audition time. When prompted, students will individually audition with 1-2 minutes of a prepared song and their prepared read. They will then wait in the lobby until their whole group is prepared to return and work through a bit of taught choreography. 

Choose your time on the SignUpGenius link, complete the online audition form ahead of time, and use the prepared read to perform your audition. Students are also asked to bring in a conflict calendar to help with rehearsal scheduling.

Participants can expect to return for our all-cast read-through on Tuesday, April 15. The first two weeks of rehearsal times have been marked on the conflict calendar, as well as tech rehearsals, dress rehearsals, and performances. Students are asked to do their best to make those times a priority even before auditions. Rehearsals will typically be in the 4-6 pm window once school is out for the summer.

Character Descriptions

• Cast Size: 25+

• Roles include age that the character is played as.

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. [kisses Sarah]

• Gender: Male

• Able to play age: 35 to 45

• Vocal range top: E4 | Vocal range bottom: B2

Sarah Brown: A pretty, bright-eyed woman who serves as Sergeant of the local Mission. She full 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. [plays drunk, kisses Sky]

• Gender: Female

• Able to play age: 20 to 30

• Vocal range top: G5 | Vocal range bottom: B3

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

• Able to play age: 35 to 45

• Vocal range top: F4 | Vocal range bottom: D3 

Miss Adelaide: Nathan's fiancée 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

• Able to play age: 25 to 35

• Vocal range top: E5 | Vocal range bottom: A3

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

• Able to play age: 30 to 45

• Vocal range top: B4 | Vocal range bottom: D3

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

• Able to play age: 30 to 45

• Vocal range top: G4 | Vocal range bottom: D3

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

• Able to play age: 50 to 65

• Vocal range top: F4 | Vocal range bottom: D3

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

• Able to play age: 35 to 55

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: Male

• Able to play age: 40 to 55

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.

• Gender: Male

• Able to play age: 30 to 50

General Matilda B. Cartwright: Regional representative of the Salvation Army. Powerful, matronly, no-nonsense with a formidable presence and, it transpires, a sense of humour.

• Able to play age: 40 to 70

Hot Box Girls: We are looking for females to make up this chorus of performers who back-up Adelaide in her night club act. Dancing (including tap), singing and character performance required. They perform 2 numbers with Adelaide & will double into other aspects of the ensemble.

• Able to play age: 18 to 35

Ensemble (playing multiple roles, some with lines): Sightseers, Mission Band (Agatha, Calvin, Martha), Crap Shooters (Liver Lips Louie, Angie The Ox, Rusty Charlie), Waiters, Cuban Dancers