Based on Damon Runyon's short story "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown," Guys and Dolls debuted on Broadway in 1950 and ran for 1,200 performances, the fifth-longest run in Broadway history. The story centers on Nathan Detroit (senior Dan Hirsh), proprietor of the longest-running floating craps game in New York City. Needing to raise $1,000 for a new location, Nathan bets high-roller Sky Masterson (music master's candidate Clark Sturdevant) that Sky can't take straitlaced mission worker Sarah Brown (senior Laura Ernst) to Havana for dinner. Complications ensue... as Sky develops genuine feelings for Sarah and the mission, saving few souls in raucous Times Square, faces imminent closure.