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Guys and Dolls transfers to Phoenix Theatre and tours the UK

The hit Chichester production moves from the Savoy Theatre to the Phoenix in March with a UK tour running simultaneously

The hit production of Guys and Dolls which opened at the Savoy Theatre in January this year will transfer to the Phoenix Theatre, it has been confirmed.

The show will replace Bend It Like Beckham which shutters on 5 March 2016. Guys and Dolls opens on 19 March.

The production was originally a Chichester Festival Theatre production directed by Gordon Greenberg. The show tours from 16 March across the UK at the same time as the extended West End run. The show is currently booking at the Phoenix Theatre until October 2016.

Read our review of the show at the Savoy Theatre here

Guys and Dolls is Frank Loesser, Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows' musical based on the stories and characters of Damon Runyon. It follows the tales of gangsters in New York and the love story between a gambling man and a Salvation Army woman and features songs such as "Luck Be a Lady" and "Sit Down You're Rockin' The Boat".

The UK tour will visit Liverpool Empire,Theatre Royal, Newcastle, His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen, The Edinburgh Playhouse, Edinburgh, Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield, Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin, Theatre Royal, Norwich, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton, Grand Theatre, Leeds, Theatre Royal, Plymouth,
King’s Theatre, Glasgow, Milton Keynes Theatre, Milton Keynes, Theatre Royal, Nottingham, The Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, New Theatre, Cardiff, Bristol Hippodrome, Bristol, Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton, New Victoria Theatre, Woking.

Full casting details are TBC.

Guys and Dolls runs at the Savoy Theatre until March 12.

Click here to buy tickets for the West End transfer