Summer Place Theatre: GUYS AND DOLLS
Details
[Host Brian's note]: Thought we'd try something more traditional this month.
Please read this entire synopsis (read more...) for tickets, parking, what-not
GUYS AND DOLLS
Book by Abe Burrows Jo Swerling
Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser
Based on The Idyll of Sarah Brown and characters by Damon Runyon
Director/Choreographer Julia Cooke
https://www.summerplacetheatre.org/Coming-Soon/guys-and-dolls
Considered by many to be the perfect musical comedy, Guys and Dolls ran for 1,200 performances when it opened on Broadway in 1950. It received nearly unanimous positive reviews from critics and won a bevy of awards.
Set in Damon Runyon's mythical New York City, Guys and Dolls is an oddball romantic comedy. Gambler, Nathan Detroit, tries to find the cash to set up the biggest craps game in town while the authorities breathe down his neck; meanwhile, his girlfriend and nightclub performer, Adelaide, laments that they've been engaged for fourteen years. Nathan turns to fellow gambler, Sky Masterson, for the dough, and Sky ends up chasing the straight-laced missionary, Sarah Brown, as a result.
Guys and Dolls takes us from the heart of Times Square to the cafes of Havana, Cuba, and even into the sewers of New York City, but eventually everyone ends up right where they belong.
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Tickets:
AduIt: $25.00
Senior/Student: $22.00
Or at the door ($25.00 / $22.00). Doors open at 7:00pm.
GENERAL ADMISSION SEATING
Purchase tickets for the June 19, 2026 performance through The Summer Place Theatre Ticket Sales
https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/summerplacetheatre/5468
Please Purchase your tickets early and ***before RSVP-***ing
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Venue:
The Summer Place Theatre is at the Naperville Central HS Auditorium.
NOTE: Some members reported that, because the venue is in the High School, they assumed Guys and Dolls is a school production. Guys and Dolls is performed by a skilled adult troupe.
Entrance and Parking
The entrance to the theatre is NOT the entrance to the school. And there is no easy way to get from the school entrance to the parking area.
Finding the theatre entrance is a bit tricky. In words, turn South on West Avenue (a Stoplight appropriately west of the school), turn East at the next stoplight (Hillside) and enter the parking lot from Hillside Street.
(I've fashioned a map in photos section below. Try double ckicking on the photo to expand.)
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How to Find Us:
I will be standing in the main auditorium holding the West Suburban Theatre Meetup Sign In placard from 7:00 P.M. thru 7:25 P.M.
I will have nametags for you. Please pick one up even if you choose not to sit with us as that is how I keep attendance.
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Up for Discussion / Food / Drink Before the Show.
See separate event Let's Meet for Dinner before GUYS AND DOLLS featuring Empire Burgers and Brew
https://www.meetup.com/west-suburban-theatre-meetup/events/314937308