PHOTOS BY LOREE GAIKOWSKI FOR THE TRUE DAKOTAN
Every seat was taken in the Historic 1905 Opera House last Thursday and Saturday as the Wessington Springs Drama Club presented their Spring Musical, Guys and Dolls.
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 highroller Sky Masterson (played by Carter Gaikowski), who falls in love with mission worker Sarah Brown (played by Haeleigh Mulder), and lovable scoundrel Nathan Detroit (played by Jack Neely), engaged for 14 years to Miss Adelaide (played by Jada Kolousek), 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.
The full cast is shown in the photo above, left to right, back row: Damien Knippling (Big Jule), Nathan Gaikowski (Gambler), Holden Jackson (Arvide Abernathy), Brett Miller (Harry the Horse), Blake Miller (Rusty Charlie), Haeleigh Mulder (Sarah Brown), Carter Gaikowski (Sky Masterson), Jack Neely (Nathan Detroit), Ethan Amick (Angie the Ox), Jada Kolousek (Miss Adelaide), Raygen Teveldal (Hot Box Girl). Front row: Will Bruckner (Nicely-Nicely Johnson), Peyton Walz (Lt. Brannigan), Tregen Jensen (BennySouthstreet),Nichelle Kruse, Felicity Ormsmith, Kaitlyn Braun (Mission Band members), Caroline Witte (Hot Box Girl), Taylor Braun (General Carwright), Sydney Richardson (Mimi), Alexis Roesler and Adelyn Burns (Hot Box Girls). Julie Fastnacht served as Director, Music Director and Choreographer. Alicia Roesler was Assistant Director and Set Design. Darcy Ormsmith and Zachary Kruse handled lighting and sound and Melissa Kroeker was stage manager with Darcy Ormsmith.
