Play On! — A New Virginia Theatre has a busy schedule planned for its 2008-2009 performance season.

Who knew, 58 years ago, when Frank Loesser’s “Guys and Dolls” opened on Broadway, that someday people would be able to carry tiny telephones that could ring to the music of the show? Imagine the difference in the “If I Were a Bell” number.

Play On! — A New Virginia Theatre will bring the musical “Guys and Dolls’’ to its Theatre at Ix stage starting 8 p.m. Thursday.
Gangsters, gamblers, nightclub dancers and missionaries are among the characters in Frank Loesser’s Tony Award-winning Broadway show about bustling New York City in the 1940s.
Clinton Johnston directs a cast that includes Heather Waters as Sarah Brown, Allen Van Houzen as Sky Masterson, Mark Gruber as Nathan Detroit and Jane Scatena as Miss Adelaide.