Guys and Dolls

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This performance is ASL Interpreted.

Upcoming ASL-Interpreted Performances

Floyd’sSaturday, August 17 at 1 p.m.

Friday, August 23 at 7:30 p.m.

PHOTO: THE CAST OF GUYS AND DOLLS (T CHARLES ERICKSON)

Synopsis

The city that never sleeps is home to a colorful, comic world of gamblers, missionaries and nightclub dancers. Among them are Nathan Detroit, who runs the oldest established permanent floating craps game in New York City; his ever-loving showgirl fiancee of 14 years, Miss Adelaide; Sky Masterson, a high-stakes gambler who’ll bet on just about anything; and Miss Sarah Brown, a sergeant in the Save-A-Soul Mission

who hopes to save the denizens of Broadway from their sinful ways.

Nathan operates his craps game on the down low to avoid both the police and Adelaide, who makes him promise to end the game. There are a lot of big players in town, but he can’t find a place to hold the game. To get the dough he needs to secure a location, he bets Sky that he can’t take Sarah to Havana. Sky accepts the challenge and promises Sarah that he’ll deliver a dozen genuine sinners to her upcoming prayer meeting if she has dinner with him. She accepts only after learning the mission might close.

Meanwhile, Adelaide and the cops both stumble upon Nathan planning the craps game. To get him out of a pickle, Nathan's fellow gamblers say they’re throwing him a bachelor party, and he agrees to elope with Adelaide. But when Nathan finally lands a place for his craps game, it blows up both men’s romances and only the biggest bet of all can bring the dolls back to their guys.

From two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage (Sweat, Ruined) comes the world premiere of a razor-sharp, disarmingly vulnerable comedy commissioned by the Guthrie. A truck stop sandwich shop named after its tough-as-nails owner, Floyd’s is more than just a respite for truckers. It’s the first step for its formerly incarcerated employees and their last hope for survival. A motley crew of line cooks forms under Zen Master Montrellous to learn the secret art of making the perfect sandwich.

Characters Meet the Interpreters

Meet the Sign Master

Nicely-Nicely Johnson“NICE” + “L-Y”signed by Erin

Benny Southstreet“B-E-N-N-Y”

signed by James

Miss Sarah Brown“S” at heart like “MISSIONARY”

signed primarily by Erin

Harry the Horse“HORSE”

signed by James

Lt. Brannigan“COP”

signed by Erin

Nathan Detroit “N-D” like DETROIT

signed primarily by James

Miss Adelaide“A” like CANDYsigned by Erin

Sky Masterson“S-K-Y”

signed by James

Big Jule“BIG J”

signed by Erin

Regina Daniels is a full-time Assistant Professor at North Central University in Minneapolis. As the program director and lead American Sign Language instructor in the Carlstrom

Interpreter Training Program based at NCU, she thrives on developing creative, challenging yet fun methods of language instruction. She enjoys teaching students about sign language interpreting from a deaf person’s perspective and helping them develop language competency. Prior to working at NCU, she taught ASL at Columbia College Chicago, where she also began working in the ASL/English Interpretation Department. She holds an M.A. in Performance Arts Management and is currently working toward her Ph.D. from St. Mary’s University of Minnesota. Regina is passionate about dance, theater and teaching ASL.

Erin Gardner is pleased to be back this season at the Guthrie having previously interpreted such favorites as Tribes, Roman Holiday, The Taming of the Shrew and My Fair Lady. She also interprets for

Broadway Across America, Chanhassen Dinner Theatres and History Theatre, among others. In addition to her interpreting work, Erin is an actress who has been seen on stages all over the Twin Cities, including numerous productions here at the Guthrie. A nationally certified freelance interpreter, she attended the interpreter training program at St. Catherine University and holds a B.F.A. in Theatre from Southern Methodist University.

James Gardner is honored to be back interpreting at the Guthrie. He has interpreted for such shows as Tribes, Romeo and Juliet, The Crucible, Born Yesterday and The Master Butchers Singing

Club, among others. Before becoming an interpreter, he received his B.A. in Theatre Arts: Acting at the University of Northern Iowa. He has been a nationally certified interpreter for over 20 years and has interpreted for many theater venues during that tenure. James has toured nationally as an actor with deaf theater companies, including Sunshine Too in Rochester, New York, and the National Theatre of the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut. He most recently interpreted The Deaf Duckling at Mixed Blood Theatre.

Save-A-Soul Mission“SAVE SOUL”

Guys and Dolls“GUY” and “SWEET”

Havana, Cuba“V” taps similar to “SALT”

Other Signs