Bob Dickason - Guys and Dolls

Guys and Dolls - theatre set design

Guys and Dolls

features a 16-piece orchestra on stage with a talented cast of about 35.

The scene is in the streets and night clubs of 1950s New York, and in the 'Save our Soul' mission.

The set is largely of reinforcing mesh and decorated with bud lights which will chase and flash.

The picture at right is from the second draft of the design, as is the stage plan further down the page; the other pictures are from the first draft.

See the scrapbook.

The curtain rises to a dark stage and we see 'G-u-y-s a-n-d d-o-l-l-s'
in illuminated letters, surrounded by bud lights.

Street scene with street lamps and signs, a news vendor and up stage cat walk.

The stage at the 'Hot Box' night club.

At the night club in Havana.

Draft 2 set plan