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Guys and Dolls
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Reviewsgate
Timothy Ramsden - 3rd April 2011
It’s better ‘n’ a probable twelve-to-seven you’ll love these Broadway babes.
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Diss Express
Paul Monkhouse - 29th March 2011
The classic Frank Loesser musical burst into loud and vibrant life at the Wolsey during the start of a three week long run. Featuring a cast of old and new faces you couldn’t help but get swept away by the sheer spectacle and energy of the production. From the opening barrage of brass to its closing joyous and upbeat finale here was a show that rightly places it in the canon of all time greats.
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East Anglian Daily Times
Andrew Clarke - 28th March 2011
If anyone needed to prove why we should be investing in theatre at a time of economic stringency then any doubters should be directed to the New Wolsey’s dazzling tenth anniversary production of Guys and Dolls.
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The Public Reviews * * * *
Michael Gray - 27th March 2011
A score of the best actor-musicians, three of the best regional producing houses, and one of the best musicals ever to come out of Broadway. Guys and Dolls, on its way from Wales to Salisbury, is at the New Wolsey Ipswich till April 16. It's a stunningly successful production, with due respect given to Runyon's story and Loesser's songs.
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One Suffolk
Rachel Sloane - 25th March 2011
It was about two-thirds into the musical “Guys and Dolls” at The New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, that the thought flashed through my mind, “I’d want to buy the CD!”. At that moment, Arvide Abernathy (played by Johnson Willis), in his Salvation Army-styled uniform, was singing “More I Cannot Wish You" to his Salvationist foster-daughter, Sergeant Sarah Brown (Laura Pitt-Pulford), with the flute playing a beautiful melody. Then I sadly remembered that it is only big West End shows that produce “original cast sound-tracks”…..yes, the music and singing were really that good.
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This Is South Wales
Chris Carra - 17th March 2011
AFTER watching Guys and Dolls in the Grand Theatre, I can safely say that Broadway has been brought to Swansea in more ways than one!
This performance of the musical that follows an array of gangsters, dancers and missionaries as they try to do business, is a co-production between Clwyd Theatr Cymru, the New Wolsey Theatre and the Salisbury Playhouse, and the quality that all three brought was immediately obvious.
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The Telegraph * * * *
Dominic Cavendish - 17th March 2011
Last but not least I caught up with a robust, spirited touring revival, by Peter Rowe, of Guys and Dolls (* * * *), which boasts a cast of 22 actors, who supply their own swinging accompaniment. It plainly made a lot of people at the New Theatre, Cardiff very happy.
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The Guardian * * * * *
Elisabeth Mahoney - 16th March 2011
From the opening moment of this exhilarating co-production between Clwyd Theatr Cymru, the New Wolsey Theatre and Salisbury Playhouse, you know you're in confident, charismatic hands. A group of New York hoodlums take to the stage brandishing cases, one calls out: "Let's Do it!" They open the cases with swagger, but pull out musical instruments instead of guns.
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South Wales Echo * * * * *
Helen Turner - 11th March 2011
Guys and Dolls is captivating from the moment the cast appear, playing clarinets and saxophones before a sparkling skyscraper backdrop.
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The Public Reviews * * * * *
Steph Rowe - 20th February 2011
Guys and Dolls based on the work of Damon Runyon and his story The idyll of Miss Sarah Brown. Set in the hustle and bustle of New York in 1952, this musical follows the story of Sky Masterson (Robbie Scotcher) who hits town and falls for a bet with Nathan Detroit (Ben Fox) a small-time gambler, that he can take any girl he wants to Havana. When Nathan names Sarah Brown (Laura Pitt-Pulford), a beautiful Sergeant at the Save-a-Soul Mission run by the Salvation Army he decides this is the girl Sky must win, and it is from here the sparks begin to fly.
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Wales Online * * * * *
Gail Cooper (for Western Mail) - 19th February 2011
The fashion for all things ’50s is captured at Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Mold, with a fabulous new production of the musical Guys and Dolls.
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Daily Post
Tess Batley-Moss - 18th February 2011
CLWYD Theatre Cymru has built up an outstanding reputation for its sell-out Christmas rock and roll pantos, under the guidance of Peter Rowe.
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The Stage
Victor Hallett - 17th February 2011
A menacing gang of tough guys emerges from smoke, identifies the audience as their target, open their instrument cases and let us have it right between the eyes. What we get blasted with is the overture played on brass instruments from the front of the stage and we know we are in for a treat.
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Theatre In Wales
Adam Somerset - 17th February 2011
“Peopled with brutalised half-wits…an interminable, an overwhelming, and in the end intolerable bore.” That was Sir Harold Hobson the first time “Guys and Dolls” played in Britain. That rush to judgement shows that even the best of writers, the sole first champion of Pinter, can still drop the occasional critical clanger. Frank Loesser is one of the top four lyricists of the last century. From the first song’s triple rhyme of “Paul Revere/ Bum steer/ sincere” on the language of “Guys and Dolls” glitters.