Guys and Dolls

Synopsis

New York, the city that never sleeps, and within it, all human life. From the news seller to the chorus girl, from the gambler to the missionary, all of them caught up in the teeming vitality of the city streets. Sergeant Sarah Brown, of the Save a Soul Mission, vainly trying to spread the Word, and make a difference to the sin and depravity of the streets, full of tipsters, gamblers and con men. Adelaide, the showgirl, desperate to leave behind her seemingly glamorous lifestyle for a white picket fence and roses round the door. Nathan Detroit, trying to find yet another new location for his floating dice game, keeping just one short step ahead of the law. And the coolest, highest roller of them all, Sky Masterson, who would bet on anything that would turn him a profit. In Act I, Nathan is desperate to find a location for his floating crap game. He can use the Biltmore Garage, but only if he can come up with a thousand dollars, and quickly. He wagers that Sky cannot persuade Sergeant Sarah Brown to fly with him to Havana. Sky uses his considerable charm to convince Sarah that he is a reformed sinner, and that he will deliver a dozen sinners to her Mission if she will have dinner with him at his favourite restaurant. She reluctantly agrees, without realising that the restaurant is in Cuba. In Act II, Sarah's uncle Arvide realises that she has fallen in love with Sky. Arvide insists that Sky fulfil his promise to deliver twelve sinners to the Mission. Sky rolls the dice to win the souls of the crapshooters, and insists that they keep their promise to attend the prayer meeting. At the meeting the gamblers reluctantly confess to their previous sins, and Sarah's mission is saved from closure. All ends happily as Nathan and Adelaide marry at the Mission now run by Sergeant Sarah and Brother Sky Masterson.