Guys And Dolls come out to play

Published on Friday 6 November 2009 14:08

LUCK Be A Lady and Sit Down You're Rocking The Boat. Two songs that the members of any amateur musicals society are almost guaranteed to know off by heart.

But then Guys And Dolls has proved a perennial favourite of both professional and unpaid performers since debuting on Broadway in 1950.

Next week Edinburgh University Savoy Opera Group bring downtown New York to the stage of the Pleasance Theatre with their renditions of other favourites such as Bushel And A Peck, Take Back Your Mink and Adelaide's Lament, when they tackle Frank Loesser, Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows' musical based on The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown and Blood Pressure, two short stories by Damon Runyon.

On the streets of New York the pious Sarah Brown, stalwart of the Save-a-Soul Mission is thrown into flux when she is wooed by scoundrel and gambler Sky Masterson. Meanwhile, the irrepressible Nathan Detroit is seeking a new location for his floating dice game, all the while side-stepping both the law and Adelaide, his long-term showgirl fiance.

Over the years Guys And Dolls has had several Broadway and West End revivals and tours as well as a being adapted as a film in 1955, starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine.

Guys And Dolls, Pleasance Theatre, Pleasance, Tuesday-Saturday, 7.30pm, 9, 0131-346 1405