Community theater: Hingham Civic Music Theatre presents musical comedy 'Guys and Dolls'

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Gambler Sky Masterson, played by Rylan Vachon, falls for Save-a-Soul Mission “doll" Sarah Brown, played by Sara Camden Daly, in the song “If I Were a Bell.”
Gambler Sky Masterson, played by Rylan Vachon, falls for Save-a-Soul Mission “doll" Sarah Brown, played by Sara Camden Daly, in the song “If I Were a Bell.”

HINGHAM –  The Hingham Civic Music Theatre will present the musical comedy "Guys and Dolls" over a two-weekend run Oct. 28-29 and Nov. 5-6  at Sanborn Auditorium in town hall.

Steve Dooner, the show’s director, is a Weymouth resident and an actor, writer, performer and professor at Quincy College.

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"Guys and Dolls" is a Tony Award-winning musical, with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. The musical first opened on Broadway in New York in 1950, with the Big Apple's underworld of gangsters and gamblers as characters.

"Guys and Dolls" tells two stories, the first involving the dashing, high-rolling gambler Sky Masterson and the beautiful Salvation Army sergeant Sarah Brown, whom he talks into going to Havana with him to win a bet; and the second involves the long-term courtship of craps game operator Nathan Detroit and Miss Adelaide, the star of the Hot Box revue.

Plymouth’s Brendan Smith plays Nathan, Duxbury’s Cynthia Krebs Lee is Miss Adelaide, Boston's Rylan Vachon is Sky Masterson and Hingham's Sara Camden Daly is Sarah Brown. Rockland’s Bonnie Gardner is gambler Nicely-Nicely Johnson.

Cynthia Krebs Lee, as Hot Box Club dancer Miss Adelaide, sings “A Bushel and a Peck” during a Hingham Civic “Guys and Dolls” rehearsal. Dancing with her are Jess Phaneuf, left, and Elle Krebs, right.
Cynthia Krebs Lee, as Hot Box Club dancer Miss Adelaide, sings “A Bushel and a Peck” during a Hingham Civic “Guys and Dolls” rehearsal. Dancing with her are Jess Phaneuf, left, and Elle Krebs, right.

Other cast members are: Chris Caron, Rob Buckel-Gillis, Roy Harris, Joel Leonard, Daniel Hannafin, Sarah Dewey, Jim Foster, Sally Jenkins, Andrew Haber, Frank Mellen, Oisin Rowan, Pamela Curren, Anne Mullaney, Janet Fountain Fortier, Annie Daly, Jess Phaneuf, Elle Krebs, Meghan Rowan and Lindsy Warwick.

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Performances will be at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 28-29 and Nov. 5 and 2 p.m. Nov. 6.  Tickets cost $25 and $20 for seniors and students and can be bought at hcmt.org or at the door. The theater is at 210 Central St., Hingham.

The Hingham Civic Music Theatre has been producing musical theater for 73 years.

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