BOB DORIAN

BOB "American Movie Classics" DORIAN as ARVIDE ABERNATHY

Marvel at the Vegas Neon Flashing Lights, The Slot Machine Sounds, The Roulette Wheel, The Craps Table, The Seat Attendants dressed in their Vegas Staple Red Blazers and brightly colored ties.

And Showgirls, Showgirls, Showgirls!!! The Musical Number "A Bushel and A Peck" dressed Adelaide and the HotBox girls up in Velveeta-Cheese Canary Yellow Feathered "Chick" Skimpy Showgirl Costumes. Not the older chickens but the little baby chicks. As one of the Chic Dancers pranced down the aisle to get to the stage, she handed a little boy a thimble-sized little baby chick stuffed toy.

Is it gonna get any Cheesier? Fortunately, the Answer is YES!!! When Frank Young decides to put on a show, he goes OVER THE TOP. Which is great for me, because I happen to love Cheese. That's one dairy product I can never get enough of. On the night of the Big Premiere, I caught Frank "The Big Cheese" Young enjoying a Jumbo Bucket of Popcorn from the Concession Stands during Intermission.

And the Show gets Sexier and Sultry. When the Musical Number "Havana" with Sky Masterson, Sarah Brown and the Ensemble came on, with the Cuban Havana dancers gracefully doing "Spanish-style" Cuban choreography, you can't help but start doing a "Salsa" dance in your seat. Ooooh, this is too much fun, it can't be legal.

--Theresa Hyde (April 7, 1999)

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SCENES AND MUSICAL NUMBERS

ACT I

Scene 1: Broadway
"Runyonland"............................................The Company
"Fugue for Tinhorns"...........................Nicely-Nicely, Benny and Rusty Charlie
"Follow the Fold"................................Sarah, Arvide and The Mission Band
"The Oldest Established"..................Nathan Detroit, Nicely-Nicely, Benny and Crapshooters
Scene 2: Interior of the Save-a-Soul Mission
"I'll Know".................................Sarah Brown and Sky Masterson
Scene 3: A Phone Booth
Scene 4: The Hot Box
"A Bushel and a Peck"......................Adelaide and Hot Box Girls
"Adelaide's Lament"..........................Adelaide
Scene 5: A Street Off Broadway
"Guys and Dolls"..............................Nicely-Nicely and Benny
Scene 6: Exterior of the mission, Noon, the next day
Scene 7: A Street off-Broadway
Scene 8: Cathedral Square in Havana, Cuba
"Havana" ................................Sky, Sarah and Ensemble
"If I Were a Bell" .. .....................................Sarah
Scene 9: Exterior of the mission, 4 A.M., the following morning
"My Time of Day"....................................Sky Masterson
"I've Never Been in Love Before"................Sky and Sarah

Intermission
ACT II

Scene 1: The Hot Box
"Take Back Your Mink".................. Adelaide and Hot Box Girls
"Adelaide's Lament" (Reprise) .................Adelaide
Scene 2: West 48th Street
"More I Cannot Wish You" .....................Arvide
Scene 3: The Sewer
"The Crapshooters' Dance .....................The Crapshooters
"Luck Be a Lady .. ..........................Sky and the Crapshooters
Scene 4: A Street off-Broadway
"Sue Me ....................................Nathan and Adelaide
Scene 5: Interior of the Save-a-Soul Mission
"Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat .. .....Nicely-Nicely and Ensemble
"Follow the Fold" (Reprise) ............Mission Meeting Group
Scene 6: A Newsstand in Times Square
"Marry the Man Today .........................Adelaide and Sarah
Scene 7: Broadway
"Finale ......................................The Company
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(L-R) Jeff Asch as Benny Southstreet, Bob Amaral as Nathan Detroit and Richard Blake as Nicely-Nicely Johnson.

Plot Synopsis

Big-time gamblers, undercover cops, nightclub singers, savers of souls, rogues and
racketeers - these are the "guys" and "dolls" of syndicated newspaper columnist Damon
Runyon's Broadway, around Duffy Square, circa 1950. He introduced some of
them in a short story, "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown." Playwrights Jo Swerting and
Abe Burrows scripted Runyon's tale for the stage, with music and lyrics by Frank Lo-
esser, and they called it Guys and Dolls.

"Nothing is in there that doesn't belong,"Burrows said of his script. Loesser is
quoted as having said "I write for the here and now; I write entertainment."Guy and
Dolls proves both correct.

Meet inveterate gambler Nathan Detroit, always eager to set up a crap game, but
much less inclined to marry his fiancee of fourteen years. The long-suffering doll in
question is Miss Adelaide, star of the seedy Hot Box cabaret whose wedding anxiety is
manifested with chronic sniffles.

When Nathan needs money for a new game site, he contrives a wager with his gam-
bling buddy, Sky Masterson. The dapper Masterson bets he can convince any girl Na-
than chooses to accompany him on a date... to Havana, Cuba. Nathan is sure the pot is
his when he names the target - Sarah Brown, reformer of sinners at the Save-A-Soul
Mission. But it's Sky who comes up the winner when Sarah agrees to go with him to
Havana on the condition that he deliver twelve sinners to the mission. As the Cuban
night fades to morning, Sarah and Sky find themselves failing in love.

Can the impossible happen? Can the upright Sarah reform her gambler? Will the
lengthy courtship of Miss Adelaide and Nathan Detroit come to a happy end? It re- ppy
mains up to our spirited heroines to bring their romances and this musical to a happy
conclusion.

In the most commonly used sense, a "fable" is a short story devised to convey some
useful moral lesson, but often carrying with it associations of the marvelous or mythi-
cal. What is the lesson in Guys & Dolls? What does each character learn? Is it to try
something new? Open your eyes? Listen to your intuition? Embrace your true colors!
Perhaps the lesson is this: Don 't define yourself too rigidly or you may miss a lot of
what life has to offer.

Guys and Dolls first opened November 24, 1950, at the 46th Street Theatre (now
the Richard Rodgers). Winner of eight 1951 Tony Awards including "Best Musical,"
it ran 1200 performances (3 years) and the top ticket price was $9.60! Enjoying its
third Broadway revival in 1992, the show grabbed another four Tonys including "Best
Revival."
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'Guys and Dolls' Opens TUTS' 5-Show 1999 Season April 6-18,
Brings Broadway Back to Southwest Arena Theatre

Upcoming: The Scarlet Pimpernel, Jesus Christ Superstar, Grand Hotel, Scrooge

Guys and Dolls, Frank Loesser's 12-time Tony winner, kicks off Theatre
Under The Stars' 1999 season and brings Broadway back to the Arena Theatre,
7326 Southwest Freeway, April 6-18. Inspired by the show's New York
characters and setting, TUTS extends the onstage fun of this hit musical
to a lively pre-show entertainment.

Combining lights, sounds and games of chance, TUTS produces "a total Guys
and Dolls experience" from lobby to stage at every performance --
8pm Tuesdays-Fridays (4/6-9, 13-16), 2pm and 8pm Saturdays (4/10 and 17),
and 2pm and 7:30pm Sundays (4/11 and 18).

Awaiting a permanent home in the new Hobby Center for the Performing Arts
in 2002, TUTS has slated its 1999 season of five subscription musicals in
two of Houston's most popular performance venues -- the Arena Theatre
in Southwest Houston, where performances are "in the round" and no seat is
more than 20 rows from the stage, and downtown in the luxurious Brown
Theater at Wortham Center. Coming productions are Lloyd Webber and Rice's
Jesus Christ Superstar, July 6-18 at the Wortham; Jekyll & Hyde composer
Frank Wildhom's The Scarlet Pimpernel, August 10-22 at the Wortham;
Tommy Tune's Tony Award-winning Grand Hotel, October 12-24 at the
Arena; and, for the holidays, TUTS' own rollicking, jazzed-up musical
version of A Christmas Carol entitled Scrooge, December 7-19 at the Arena.

Guys and Dolls, the romantic comedy that finds a handsome gambler guy,
Sky Masterson, failing for the Save-a-Soul Mission doll, Sarah Brown,
is a classic Broadway charmer. Based on a Damon Runyon short story
adapted for the stage by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, the show is filled
with loveable gamblers, saucy nightclub cuties and determined soul-savers.

TUTS' production is sponsored in part by Exxon. TUTS'production stars
Broadway veterans Richard Muenz as Sky and Jacquelyn Piro as Sarah, with
Bob Amaral as Sky's gambling buddy, Nathan Detroit, and Barbara Passolt
as his voluptuous longtime fiance, Miss Adelaide. Longtime actor and
AMC movie host Bob Dorian takes the role of Sarah's kindly Mission
confidant, Arvide Abernathy, and Louisa Flaningam reprises her Broadway
role as General Matilda B. Cartwright. Richard Blake, Jeff Asch, Richard
Carlson and Peter Bryson are the colorful street gamblers Nicely-Nicely
Johnson, Benny Southstreet, Rusty Charlie and Big Jule. Other assorted
"guys" are James Alba, Robert M. Armitage, Mark Arvin, Bill Bateman,
Mark Sanders, Seth Hoff and Marc Ellis Holland. "Dolls" include Ruth Bates,
Marybelle Chaney, Deanna Dys, Lizzie Lunine, Trish Reidy, Stephanie Ann
Sheppard and Trina Simon-O'Steen.

Guys and Dolls is directed by Jamie Rocco, who most recently staged the New
York production of The Wizard of Oz starring Roseanne and now on tour
starring Mickey Rooney and Liliane Montevecchi. Choreographer is Sharon
Halley, who last summer choreographed Larry Gatlin's Texas Flyer for TUTS.
Music direction is by conductor Wayne Green, who most recently fashioned
the score for TUTS' premiere of Zorro, The Musical. Sets for this
environmental theatre piece are by John Farrell, with Broadway costumes
by William Ivey Long. Lighting designer is David Neville; sound designer,
Beth Berkeley; and hair designer, Catherine Tucker. Roger Allan Raby
is production stage manager; Richard Earl Laster, stage manager.

The show's solid-gold score, with both music and lyrics by the great
Broadway composer Frank Loesser, boasts such show-stopping classics as
"Luck Be A Lady Tonight," "A Bushel And A Peck," "Take Back Your Mink"
and "Sit Down, You're Rockin' The Boat."

When Guys and Dolls first opened on Broadway in 1950 it ran for more than
three years (1,194 performances)and won eight Tony Awards. Returning to
Broadway in 1992, it took a record four Tony Awards for Best Revival,
Best Direction (Jerry Zaks), Best Scenic Design (Tony Walton) and Best
Actress (Faith Prince). The original cast featured such luminaries as
Robert Alda as Sky Masterson, Sam Levine as his buddy Nathan Detroit,
Vivian Blaine as Nathan's squeeze Adelaide and Stubby Kaye as the
boat-rockin' Nicely-Nicely.

A film version in 1955 starred Marlon Brando (Sky), Jean Simmons (Sarah),
Frank Sinatra (Nathan) and Miss Blaine (reprising Adelaide). In April 1992,
the Broadway revival was launched to unanimous critical acclaim. The
production broke records for its opening day ticket sales, surpassing the
previous Broadway record-holder, Phantom of the Opera.

With discounts up to 40% off single ticket prices, subscribers can see all
five Broadway musicals for as little as $55. Subscription savings on all
five shows are available by phone at 713/ 558-TUTS (8887) or at the
TUTS box office in Corporate Plaza One, 2600 Southwest Freeway at Kirby
Drive.

Single tickets for Guys and Dolls ($16-$55) are on sale at the TUTS box
office, the Arena box office, Admission Network outlets (Sound Revolution,
Vinal Edge) and Ticketmaster outlets (including Foley's, Kroeger and Fiesta)
Charge by phone at (800) 678-5440.

Major sponsors of TUTS' 1999 season productions include The Humphreys
Foundation, BP Exploration, Conoco, Exxon, Duke Energy, Pricewaterhouse
Coopers, Burlington Resources Foundation, Arthur Andersen LLP, Chase Bank
of Texas, N.A., Crescent Real Estate Equities, Ltd. and Bank One.

Air transportation is provided by Continental Airlines, the official
airline of Theatre Under The Stars.