Guys and Dolls Preview at Kensico Dam Italian Festival

The Mount Pleasant Community Theater will perform an excerpt from Guys and Dolls, their 45th annual summer production, on July 26 at 1 pm. The full-length version, directed and choreographed by Rose Cremonese-Norton, will be presented on July 31 and August 1, 7 and 8 at 8 pm, August 2 at 2 pm and August 6 at 7:30 pm in the John Whearty Theater at Westlake High School, 825 Westlake Drive in Thornwood, NY. Tickets can be ordered on-line at www.mpctshows.com. For further information, call 914-769-0958 or 914-773-9171 or e-mail mpctshows@gmail.com.

The cast includes Rae West (right in photo), daughter-in-law of Cremonese-Norton, playing Miss Adelaide, Nathan Detroit’s fiance and a lead performer at the Hot Box nightclub. West came up from her home in Salem, VA to play the role. She appears opposite Pleasantville resident Richie Murden as Nathan Detroit ,

Tom Ammirato of Mt. Kisco stars as Sky Masterson, a high stakes gambler whose luck never seems to run out. Audiences will remember Tom as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof in the summer of 2013. Robyn O’Brien of Eastchester plays female lead Sarah Brown as a pretty, bright-eyed woman who serves as Sergeant of the local mission.

The cast also includes:

· Jim Stake* of Bedford Hills -- Nicely-Nicely Johnson *appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity

· Frank Accosta of Elmsford -- Benny Southstreet

. John Wright of Hawthorne -- Rusty Charlie

· Chris Jamison of Yorktown Heights -- Arvide Abernathy

· Chuck Buchanan of White Plains -- Lt. Brannigan

. Claudia Torzilli of Hawthorne as General Curtis

· Gary Simon of Cortlandt Manor, and

· Mark Firestone of Cold Spring -- Big Jule

Guys and Dolls, with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, depicts colorful gangsters, gamblers and other characters of the New York underworld, based on stories by Damon Runyon. The premiere on Broadway was in 1950. It ran for 1,200 performances and won the Tony Award for Best Musical. The musical has had several Broadway and London revivals, as well as a 1955 film adaptation starring Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra.

About Mount Pleasant Community Theater

Mount Pleasant Community Theater was founded in the summer of 1970 by Cremonese-Norton, owner of Rose’s School of Dance. Support has been provided by the community, including the Mt. Pleasant Recreation Department and the Thornwood/Hawthorne Chamber of Commerce. In addition, this year the theater group has set up a Go Fund account to raise money to defray the cost of costumes. The link is gofund.me/mpct_costume_fund Any and all donations are appreciated.