Above, Adelaide, played by Bethany Rowe (top right), catches several men in the act of an illegal craps game in the city sewer in this scene from Western Carolina University’s production of “Guys and Dolls.” Portraying the gamblers are, clockwise from bottom right, Anthony Giordano, Patrick Detloff, Benny Enfinger, Timothy Stoeckel, Greg Kennedy and Nathaniel Mason. The hit Broadway musical will be staged Feb. 21-24 in WCU’s Fine and Performing Arts Center. Call (828) 227-2479 for ticket information. (WCU photo by Mark Haskett)

Tickets are still available for the University Players production of the Broadway musical “Guys and Dolls,” showing at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Feb. 21-23, and 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 24, in the performance hall of the Fine and Performing Arts Center on the campus of Western Carolina University.

Stage and screen actor and director Terrence Mann, Phillips Distinguished Professor of Musical Theatre at Western, will direct. Choreography is by Christopher d’Amboise, renowned dancer and choreographer.

“Guys and Dolls” is set in the 1940s New York world of gamblers and do-gooders. The plot turns on a bet Nathan Detroit makes with fellow gambler Sky Masterson and Sky’s ensuing courtship with neighborhood missionary Sarah Brown.

Tickets cost $5 for students, $15 for faculty and for adults 60 and older, and $20 for adults. For more information, contact the Fine and Performing Arts Center box office at (828) 227-2479 or visit http://wcutheatre.ticketsxchange.com/.

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