{"id":244894,"date":"2012-03-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/lambs-players-fields-fine-fun-guys-and-dolls-2\/"},"modified":"2012-03-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T08:00:00","slug":"lambs-players-fields-fine-fun-guys-and-dolls-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/lambs-players-fields-fine-fun-guys-and-dolls-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lamb's Players presenta bien, divertido 'Guys and Dolls'"},"content":{"rendered":"

Por Charlene Baldridge | Cr\u00edtico de Teatro SDUN<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Spencer Rowe & Eileen Bowman (Photo by JT MacMillan)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The newly opened \u201cGuys and Dolls\u201d is a splendid example of the Lamb\u2019s Players Theater doing what it does best. All the elements in this classic, large cast musical, from leads to costumes to choreography and live orchestra, are assured, sparkling with ease and enthusiasm. This review is based on the opening night performance of Feb. 11. The musical plays through April 1.<\/p>\n

The 1950 Broadway musical is based on short stories and characters by Damon Runyon with a book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. Frank Loesser\u2019s music and lyrics sparkle, offering listeners who may have forgotten, or never knew, a prime bouquet of songs that issue from character and advance the plot.<\/p>\n

An entertainer at the Hot Box nightclub, Miss Adelaide (hilarious and spunky Eileen Bowman) has been engaged for 14 years to a gambler named Nathan Detroit (Spencer Rowe). Nathan has serious commitment issues and runs \u201cThe Oldest Established\u201d floating crap game in town. Harry the Horse (Andy Collins) is putting the pressure on because Big Julie (John Rosen) is in from Chicago looking for some action and Nathan hasn\u2019t yet found a venue for it.<\/p>\n

Nathan finds a place but needs a $1,000 guarantee, which he doesn\u2019t have. He bets high-roller Sky Masterson (Brent Schindele) that Sky can\u2019t persuade Salvation Army doll Sarah Brown (Kelsey Venter) to go to Havana with him. Sky, who is very persuasive, wins the bet and falls in love for the first time (\u201cI\u2019ve Never Been in Love Before\u201d) and despite her better judgment, so does Sarah (\u201cIf I Were a Bell\u201d).<\/p>\n

Nathan\u2019s main Guys are well played by Jesse Abeel as Liver Lips Louie, Danny Boman [sic] as Benny Southstreet, and Tim Roberts as Nicely Nicely, with fine turns by Rhona Gold as Salvation Army General Cartwright, Ralph Johnson as Sarah\u2019s grandfather (touching in his song \u201cMore I Cannot Wish You\u201d) and Jim Chovick as Lt. Brannigan.<\/p>\n

Knockout musical numbers include Adelaide\u2019s \u201cTake Back Your Mink,\u201d Sky\u2019s \u201cLuck Be a Lady,\u201d and the ensemble piece \u201cSit Down, You\u2019re Rockin\u2019 the Boat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schindele and Venter are musically fine as Sky and Sarah. Though it\u2019s not the ideal rolling and rich baritone, Schindele\u2019s voice is well suited the venue and he is handsome. Venter possesses a sweet soprano and gratifying musicality. What I would wish her is a better wig. As for Bowman\u2019s Adelaide, she is precious, extremely musical and a screamingly funny comic. Rowe is extremely appealing as Nathan.<\/p>\n

Costume designer Jeanne Reith dresses the Guys and Dolls brightly. I particularly adored Benny\u2019s green suit and the colorful shirts worn by the male dancers, who were fabulously kinetic crapshooters as choreographed by Coleen Kollar Smith. Kerry Meads upholds her reputation as one of the city\u2019s finest musical comedy directors. The pacing never flags and the evening flashes by in just two and a half hours, due in part to Mike Buckley\u2019s fluid scenic design. Patrick Duffy\u2019s sound design supports the artists as well as Jon Lorenz\u2019s musical direction, the fine five-piece band, which plays Taylor Peckham\u2019s venue appropriate orchestrations.<\/p>\n

\u201cGuys and Dolls\u201d continues at 7:30pm Tuesdays-Thursdays; 8pm Fridays-Saturdays; 4pm Saturdays; and 2 pm Sundays through April 1 at Lamb\u2019s Player\u2019s Theatre, 1142 Orange Avenue, Coronado, www.lambsplayers.org or (619) 437-6000. Tickets $26-$64.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Charlene Baldridge | SDUN Theater Critic The newly opened \u201cGuys and Dolls\u201d is a splendid example of the Lamb\u2019s Players Theater doing what it does best. All the elements in this classic, large cast musical, from leads to costumes to choreography and live orchestra, are assured, sparkling with ease and enthusiasm. This review is […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":731,"featured_media":244893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11555","_seopress_titles_title":"Lamb\u2019s Players fields fine, fun \u2018Guys and Dolls\u2019","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[12360,11551,11593,11555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-duplicate","category-news","category-no-images","category-uptown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/731"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}