2012 guys and dolls
Shasta High’s 43rd Annual Musical
Press
Shasta High's 'Guys and Dolls' A Pretty Good Bet
By Jon Lewis, Special to Record Searchlight
Published April 2012
Shasta High music teacher Spencer Gavin didn't have to call Central Casting to cast one of the leads for "Guys and Dolls" ? he just needed to head over to the gym.
That's where Gavin found Theo Workman, a junior in his first year in the music program, for the role of high-rolling gambler Sky Masterson. "He knocked his audition out of the park. I had no idea he had the talent he has," Spencer said. "He's a big tall dude, 6 foot 5, and was on the basketball team. He decided to do something different and pulled off the lead role."
Workman's musical counterpart is Emily Robinson, who plays Sgt. Sarah Brown, head of the Save-a-Soul Mission and an anti-gambling crusader. "She's got a killer soprano," said Spencer. "And she's only a junior, which is awesome, so I get her back next year."
Moira Davis, a sophomore, has been cast as the long-suffering Adelaide, a gentleman's club dancer who has been waiting 14 long years for her boyfriend, Nathan Detroit, to marry her. "She's probably the funniest person in the show," Spencer said. "She has psychosomatic symptoms. She's so in love it makes her sick. She's always catching a cold or the flu. It literally makes her sick that she's in love with this guy."
David Fowler, a senior who starred as Harold Hill in last year's production of "The Music Man," has been cast as Nathan Detroit. Nathan is constantly on the lookout for a new home for his floating craps game.
Spencer said this is his first time directing the venerable Broadway classic, and that he picked it partly in response to Lou Polcari, the school's orchestra director. "For years, he's been asking, ?when are we going to do a swing show, I want to play some jazz.' I said ?OK, this year I'm throwing you a bone?we're doing ?Guys and Dolls.'"