FARMINGTON – The Mount Blue High School Music and Theater departments will present the 1950s hit “Guys and Dolls” this month.

The show will open Thursday, May 6, with additional performances Friday and Saturday, May 7 and 8. Curtain time is 7:30 p.m. in the Mount Blue High School Auditorium.

Tickets are $6 adults/seniors and $3.50 students/children. Tickets may be purchased at the door or reserved by phoning 778-3398.

Starring in the production is Britny Lee as Miss Sarah Brown, Devon Robinson as Sky Masterman, Angie Richards as Miss Adelaide and Mason Barker as Nathan Detroit. Debby Muise and Jim Grippe direct the show.

Music director is Carol Shumway and Pat Ray serves as choreographer. Steve Muise will be conducting the pit orchestra.

“Guys and Dolls” became the fifth longest-running Broadway musical of the ’50s. The show opened at the 46th Street Theatre on Nov. 24, 1950, and enjoyed a run of 1,200 performances. The 1955 film version featured Marlon Brando, Vivian Blaine, Frank Sinatra and Jean Simmons.

Based on Damon Runyon’s short story “The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown,” “Guys and Dolls” revolves around Nathan Detroit, the organizer of the oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York, who bets fellow gambler Sky Masterson that he can’t make the next girl he sees fall in love with him. The next girl he sees happens to be Miss Sarah Brown, a pure-at-heart Salvation Army-type reformer, and the stage is set for a hilarious evening of complications.

“Guys and Dolls” was written by composer/lyricist Frank Loesser and librettists Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows.