Guys and Dolls Auditions
When: Sunday, April 13th 1:00pm - 6:00pm at ACT Theatre, 918 M Ave
Monday, April 14th 6:00pm - 9:00pm at Buxton's, 1904 Commercial Ave
Callbacks: Tuesday, April 15th, 6:00pm - 9:00pm at Buxton's
Dance/Final Callbacks: Wednesday, April 16th, 6:00pm - 9:00pm at Buxton's
Guys and Dolls runs from July 11th to August 9th, 2025
Rehearsals will start April 21st and will vary by character; Sunday – Wednesday evenings.
Audition and Callback Materials
For your first audition, prepare a song from a Broadway musical. Bring your own backing track on your device to play on our bluetooth speaker.
Take a look at the songs below that you may be asked to do for a callback. The sheet music is underlined and next to each is an MP3 example of the song from the 1951 cast. Practice tracks for your convenience are provided below as well.
At callbacks, you will also read dialogue from selected scenes. Please see the scenes provided below.
Synopsis
The Broadway classic comes to the ACT stage! Gambler Nathan Detroit has few options for the location of his big craps game. Needing $1,000 to pay a garage owner to host the game, Nathan bets Sky Masterson that Sky cannot get virtuous Sarah Brown out on a date. Despite some resistance, Sky negotiates a date with her in exchange for bringing people into her mission. Meanwhile, Nathan’s longtime fiancée, Adelaide wants him to go legit and marry her.
Character Descriptions
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
Age: 30 to 45
Vocal range top: B5
Vocal range bottom: D4
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 interests at heart.
Gender: Male
Age: 30 to 45
Vocal range top: G5
Vocal range bottom: D4
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.
Gender: Female
Age: 20 to 30
Vocal range top: G5
Vocal range bottom: B3
Arvide Abernathy
Has been precast
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
Age: 35 to 55
Vocal range top: G5
Vocal range bottom: F3
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
Age: 40 to 55
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
Age: 35 to 45
Vocal range top: F5
Vocal range bottom: D4
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.
Gender: Female
Age: 35 to 45
Vocal range top: E5
Vocal range bottom: A3
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.
Gender: Male
Age: 35 to 45
Vocal range top: E5
Vocal range bottom: B3
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
Age: 30 to 50
Vocal range top: G5
Vocal range bottom: F3
General Cartwright
The formidable leader of the Save-a-Soul Mission organization.
Gender: Female
Age: 40 to 60
Ensemble
Sightseers, Mission Band (Agatha, Calvin, Martha), Crap Shooters (Liver Lips Louie, Angie The Ox,
Rusty Charlie, and more), Hot Box Girls, Waiters, Cuban Dancers