Description:

Harper College is holding auditions for Guys and Dolls.

Seeking: Seeking performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to attend auditions. All major roles will be understudied.

Character Type/Restrictions:
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. Vocal Range: D4-B4.

BENNY SOUTHSTREET: Nathan's right-hand man and a gambler himself. Smart, slick, always moving and shaking, but with what he thinks is Nathan's best interest at heart. Vocal Range: D4-G4.

SARAH BROWN: a 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. Vocal Range: B3-G5.

ARVIDE ABERNATHY: the bass drum and cymbal player in the Mission band, is Sarah's loving grandfather. Wise and sweet, he wants nothing but the best for her. Vocal Range D4-F4.

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. Vocal Range: F3-G4.

RUSTY CHARLIE: a gambler. Small time gambling sidekick of Nicely-Nicely and Benny Southstreet. Vocal Range: F4-G4.

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 Non-Singing Role

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. Vocal Range: D4-F4.

MISS ADELAIDE: Nathan's fiance and a lead performer at the Hot Box nightclub. She loves Nathan more than anything in the world desperately wants to get married. Pretty, outspoken and stubborn. Vocal Range: A3-E5.

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 and handsome. Vocal Range: B2-E4.

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. Vocal Range: F3-G4.

GENERAL MATILDA B. ARTWRIGHT: regional representative of the Salvation Army. Powerful, matronly, no-nonsense with a formidable presence, yet a sense of humor. Vocal Range: Mezzo-Soprano

HOT BOX GIRLS/MISSION BAND MEMBERS/GAMBLERS/ENSEMBLE

Audition Location: Harper College Blackbox Theatre (L109). 1200 West Algonquin Road. Palatine, IL 60067