Beau Bridges, one of America's best-known actors, joins Brian Stokes Mitchell, Jessica Biel, Scott Bakula, and Ellen Greene in Guys and Dolls in concert at the Hollywood Bowl. There will be three performances only, Friday and Saturday July 31 and August 1 at 8:30 pm and Sunday, August 2 at 7:30 pm. Bridges will play Arvide Abernathy, and sings "More I Cannot Wish You," an audience favorite from the Frank Loesser score, which includes some of the most popular songs of the era including "I'll Know," "A Bushel and Peck," "If I Were A Bell," "Guys and Dolls," and "Luck Be a Lady."
One of the musicals that defined the Golden Era of Broadway, Guys and Dolls, with music and lyrics by Loesser, and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, made its Broadway premiere in 1950, ran for 1200 performances, and won 15 Tony awards, including Best Musical. The show brought "Runyonland," the world of author Damon Runyon, to life - and did for those characters what Spamalot does for Monty Python or Hairspray does for the world of John Waters.
Bridges has appeared in over fifty feature films, including The Other Side of the Mountain, Norma Rae, Heart Like a Wheel, Sordid Lives, Max Payne, The Fabulous Baker Boys opposite his brother Jeff for which Beau received the Best Supporting Actor Award from the National Society of Film Critics. He just wrapped production in Cape Town on Free Willy: South Africa for Warner Brothers.
In television, Bridges has received eleven Emmy nominations and won three along with two Golden Globes. His wins were for Best Actor in Without Warning: The James Brady Story and Best Supporting Actor for The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom and The Second Civil War. He recently played Earl's dad in My Name Is Earl, which garnered him an Emmy nomination, and General Landry in the series Stargate SG-1. He appeared in the 100th anniversary show of Desperate Housewives as handyman Eli Scruggs.
On the stage, Bridges performed in the original productions of The Trial of the Catonsville Nine by Father Daniel Berrigan at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles and on Broadway in both William Inge's Where's Daddy? and Peter Ustinov's Who's Who in Hell. He also originated the role of Roy in Looking for Normal by Jane Anderson at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles.
He shared a 2009 Grammy win with Cynthia Nixon and Blair Underwood for Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth in the category of Best Spoken Word Album.
This original, fully-staged production especially adapted for the Hollywood Bowl stage, is a one-of-a-kind production by the same creative team behind last summer's Les Misérables in Concert, led by director Richard Jay-Alexander and with musical direction by Kevin Stites, conducting the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. Joining the team this year, as choreographer, is Tony Award-winner Donna McKechnie.
The cast also includes Ken Page (Nicely-Nicely), Ruth Williamson (Gen. Mathilde Cartwright) Herschel Sparber (Big Jule), Jason Graae (Benny Southstreet), Bill Lewis (Harry the Horse), Danny Stiles (Rusty Charlie), Amir Talai (Angie the Ox/Joey Biltmore), Jody Ashworth (Lt. Brannigan), Cindy Benson (Agatha) and Grace Wall (Martha). The Hot Box Girls will be Sandahl Bergman, Chelsea Field, Jane Lanier, Valarie Pettiford, Tracy Powell, and Kathryn Wright.
