Immersive Version Of Classic Broadway Musical ‘Guys & Dolls’ To Open At London’s Bridge Theatre Next Year: Let’s Party

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EXCLUSIVE: The rollicking Broadway musical Guys & Dolls is to be revived at London’s The Bridge Theatre next year with 420 members of the audience able to “party” with the cast, as the show’s director Nicholas Hytner (The History Boys) told Deadline, in an immersive production that’s set to begin preview performances from February 27.Official opening night is March 9.Hytner, a former artistic director of Britain’s National Theatre, said that he and his associates chose Guys & Dolls “because a hell of a lot of it happens in public space like Times Square,Broadway, and Havana.”Guys & Dolls ,described as a Broadway fable,is based on tales penned by Damon Runyon, with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows.“The audience will arrive to see our stage resembling Times Square.Then they’ll follow the story through the Save-a-Soul Mission and the Hat Box Club.The standing audience members are moving and partying with the action and they are the cheapest tickets.They get participation and spectacle.I imagine that bar-hopping in Havana in the early 1950s is something that we’d all like to do,” Hytner told us.The 600 or so people sitting are just as close to the action, said Hytner. ”And they get the benefit of watching the crowd who are part of the spectacle,”he added.Guys & Dolls interweaves two stories, both involving a gamble.

One one hand there’s Nathan Detroit’s need to find a home for his permanent,floating crap game; the other card trick has Sky Masterson betting that he can sweep the missionary doll, Sarah Brown off her feet and take her on a date.Meanwhile, Nathan’s partner, or permanent fiancée ,Miss.Adelaide wants an end to the gambling shenanigans so she can get married.Hytner told