'Guys and Dolls' set to begin Wednesday at River Campus

Southeast Missouri State University's River Campus will host "Guys and Dolls" beginning Wednesday.

Presented by Top of the Marq, performances will be in Bedell Performance Hall and will begin at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, with a 2 p.m. performance planned Sunday.

"Guys and Dolls," is based on Damon Runyon short stories and characters and follows a gambler trying to pull off a high-stakes craps game.

According to Broadway.com: "Set in Depression-era Times Square, 'Guys and Dolls' is about a couple of big city gamblers and the women who love them. It tells the overlapping stories of high-roller Sky Masterson, who falls in love with mission worker Sarah Brown, and lovable rapscallion Nathan Detroit, engaged for 14 years to Miss Adelaide, a headliner at the Hot Box Club. Nathan runs a famous floating crap game, and an ongoing plot line involves his quest for a safe place for the game as Adelaide continues her quest to convince him to marry her. Meanwhile, Sarah, mistakenly believing that Sky set up an illegal game at the mission, tries to fight her affection for the charismatic crapshooter."

Tickets $25 and may be purchased from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays at the River Campus box office or online at www.rivercampus.org.