Beau Bridges Completes Cast of Hollywood Bowl Guys and Dolls

Emmy Award-winning actor Beau Bridges will play Arvide Abernathy alongside previously announced stars Brian Stokes Mitchell, Jessica Biel, Scott Bakula and Ellen Greene in the forthcoming concert version of Guys and Dolls at the Hollywood Bowl. The beloved musical will play three performances, July 31-August 2, at the 18,000-seat outdoor venue, directed by Richard Jay-Alexander.

In addition to Mitchell Sky Masterson, Biel Sarah Brown, Bakula Nathan Detroit and Greene Miss Adelaide, the cast includes Ken Page Nicely-Nicely, Ruth Williamson Gen. Mathilde Cartwright, Herschel Sparber Big Jule, Jason Graae Benny Southstreet, Bill Lewis Harry the Horse, Danny Stiles Rusty Charlie, Amir Talai Angie the Ox/Joey Biltmore, Jody Ashworth Lt. Brannigan, Cindy Benson Agatha and Grace Wall Martha. The Hot Box Girls will be Sandahl Bergman, Chelsea Field, Jane Lanier, Valarie Pettiford, Tracy Powell, and Kathryn Wright.

With a score by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, Guys and Dolls made its Broadway premiere in 1950, ran for 1,200 performances, and won 15 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. A revival of the show is currently running at Broadway’s Nederlander Theatre.

Bridges appeared on Broadway in two short-lived comedies, Where’s Daddy? and Who’s Who in Hell and in Los Angeles productions of The Trial of the Catonsville Nine and Looking for Normal. He has appeared in more than 50 feature films, including The Other Side of the Mountain, Norma Rae, Heart Like a Wheel, Max Payne, The Fabulous Baker Boys and the forthcoming Free Willy: South Africa. Bridges won Emmys for Without Warning: The James Brady Story, The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom and The Second Civil War and was nominated for an Emmy for playing the title character’s father in My Name Is Earl. He shared a 2009 Grammy win with Cynthia Nixon and Blair Underwood for Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth in the category of Best Spoken Word Album.

The Hollywood Bowl concerts will feature musical direction by Kevin Stites, conducting the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, and choreography by Tony Award winner Donna McKechnie.