Guys and Dolls

Outline of Scenes

Act I

Scene 1. Broadway

Part a

1. "Runyonland"
2. "Fugue for Tinhorns"
3. "Follow the Fold"

Part b

4. Nicely, Benny, Harry, Brannigan
5. "The Oldest Established"
6. Nathan, Benny, Nicely

Part c

7. with Adelaide
8. Nathan & Sky
9. Mission Band Cross

Scene 2. Mission Interior

1. group
2. Sky & Sarah: "I’ll know"
3. Sarah alone (continuing song)

Scene 3. Phone Booth

Scene 4. Hot Box

1. "Bushel and a Peck"
2. Nathan & Adelaide
3. "Adelaide’s Lament"

Scene 5. Street off Broadway

1. Band & Sky cross
2. Nicely & Benny: "Guys & Dolls"

Scene 6. Mission Exterior

1. with General
2. Sky enters

Scene 7. Off Broadway ("red carnation" scene)

Scene 8. Havana

1. Sky & Sarah: ifo traveler
2. the dive

Scene 9. Havana fountain-Sarah & Sky: "If I were a bell"

Scene 10. Mission Exterior

1. Sky & Sarah-dialogue
2. with Adelaide, girls, & drunk
3. Sky & Sarah: "My time of day" & "I’ve never been . . ."
4. Arvide enters, with band
5. Gamblers escape; police chase
6. Sky & Sarah-dialogue

Act II

Scene 1. Hot Box

1. "Take Back Your Mink"
2. Sky & Nicely
3. Sky & Adelaide
4. "Adelaide’s Lament"-reprise

Scene 2. Street Exterior

1. Sarah & Arvide: "More I cannot wish you"
2. Sky enters
3. Sky & Nicely-sewer entrance

Scene 3. Sewer

1. Crap shooters dance
2. Big Jule’s scene
3. Sky & Nicely enter: "Luck be a lady"

Scene 4. Off Broadway

1. Crap shooters cross
2. Nathan & Adelaide: "Sue me"

Scene 5. Mission Interior

1. General & missionaries
2. crowd enters
3. Brannigan enters: "Sit down . . ."

Scene 6. Street off Broadway-Adelaide & Sarah: "Marry the man today"

Scene 7. Broadway-Finale: "Guys and Dolls" (reprise)