Guys & Dolls, Bridge Theatre, 2024.
Cast: Owain Arthur, George Ioannides, Jonathan Andrew Hume, Ryan Pidgen, Cameron Johnson, Dashaun Vegas, TJ Lloyd, Eamonn Cox, Dominic Lamb, Filippo Coffano, Pierce Rogan, Nathan Rigg, Dale White, Samuel Routley, Alex Given, Niall Buggy, Cornelius Clarke, Celinde Schoenmaker, Saffi Needham, Lucie Horsfall, Hollie Jane Stephens, Kamilla Fernandes, Tori Scott, Timmika Ramsey, Sian Nathaniel-James, Tanisha-Mae Brown, Katie Bradley, Sophie Pourret.
Music & lyrics: Frank Loesser
Book: Jo Swerling & Abe Burrows
Director: Nicholas Hytner
This is one of those productions that's so good and which reinvents the way something is performed - in the round, definitely immersive - that I left wanting never to see a conventional production of a musical again. But of course not everyone can afford to do this type of thing and before you know it we're back to the same productions as before. Change really is glacial.
This must have saved the Bridge. Nicholas Hytner has a liking for the kind of serious/dull dramas he did at the National which are never going to be big hits, whereas this seemed to go on forever. I wish people would learn a lesson from that.
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