GUYS AND DOLLS Revival to End West End Run Four Months Early
By: Caryn Robbins Aug. 02, 2016
In a press statement released today, producers of the current West End revival of GUYS AND DOLLS have announced that the show will end its run at the Phoenix Theatre four months earlier than scheduled. Originally set to run to January 7, 2017, the musical will now shutter on August 21st.
PITCH PERFECT's Rebel Wilson recently made her West End debut in the role of Miss Adelaide. The new closing date will now coincide with the conclusion of her limited scheduled appearance.
The statement from producers reads: "Having enjoyed rave reviews in the UK, the critically acclaimed Chichester Festival Theatre production of Guys and Dolls will play its final performance in the West End on Sunday August 21, prior to embarking on an international tour. We are incredibly proud of Guys and Dolls and the way it has delighted audiences at Chichester Festival Theatre, in the West End (Savoy and Phoenix), and at numerous major UK venues. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all those involved in the show to date and very much look forward to taking Guys & Dolls to an international audience, opening in Israel in September this year."
A joyous and vibrant celebration of Prohibition-era New York, Guys and Dolls first premiered on Broadway in 1950 and captured the optimism and energy of post-World War Two America. This hugely popular and multi award-winning musical by Frank Loesser, Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, based on the colourful stories by American journalist Damon Runyon renowned for his vivid fictional depictions of the gamblers, hustlers and nightclub singers of New York, features some of Broadway's greatest musical numbers including 'My Time of Day', 'Luck be a Lady' and the show-stopping 'Sit Down You're Rockin' the Boat'. Guys and Dolls is directed byGordon Greenberg with choreography by Cuban dancer and former Royal Ballet star Carlos Acosta and Andrew Wright, whose credits include Chichester Festival Theatre's Singin' in the Rain.
Photo credit: Johan Persson
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