What: “Guys and Dolls” musical

Where: Tupper Lake Middle-High School auditorium, 24 Chaney Ave.

When: 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 2 p.m. matinee Sunday

How much: $10 for adults or $7 for students and seniors.

Sky Masterson (Noah Cordes, center) and the Crap Shooters sing "Luck Be a Lady." (Photo provided — George Cordes)

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TUPPER LAKE — There’s something cartoony and unbelievable about depictions of 1920s and ’30s America. Everybody apparently spoke very fast all the time, men — no matter how little money they had — were always seen wearing three-piece suits and fedoras and women were commonly referred to as “broads,” and “dames” and “chicks.”

And it was all very funny.

“This show holds up very well,” said director George Cordes. “Granted, there are things that with our modern sensibilities feel a bit outdated in terms of the way that guys talk about the dolls and the dolls talk about the guys, but it’s all treated with humor and in a good-natured way.”

Tupper Lake High School students will perform Frank Loesser’s “Guys and Dolls” Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Adult tickets are $10, and student and senior citizen tickets are $7.

Stephanie Fortune as Miss Adelaide and Dorran Boucher as Nathan. (Photo provided — George Cordes)

In early 20th-century Manhattan, Nathan Detroit searches for money and a new location to host his illegal rotating crap game. He bets big-time gambler Sky Masterson $1,000 that Sky can’t take a woman of Nathan’s choosing on a romantic date to Havana, Cuba, within 24 hours. The woman Nathan chooses is staunch and pious mission leader Sergeant Sarah Brown. Sky feigns interest in repenting his evil deeds and promises Sarah “one dozen genuine sinners” for her failing mission, though he actually winds up falling in love with her. Meanwhile, Nathan’s nightclub singer girlfriend Adelaide grows more upset with Nathan’s seedy lifestyle and his avoiding marriage after 14 years of engagement.

Nathan and Sky need to decide what’s more important: a silly bet and some money, or love.

Cordes said he chose the play because he believes Loesser is one of the greatest American composers and that he presents the story in such a hyperbolic yet accessible manner.

“It’s all part of an idealized New York City that never actually existed,” he said. “He’s got all these wise guys talking a certain way, but there’s a lot of great human nature in the play as well. The love story between the lead characters is timeless as it applies to modern human relationships.”

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The Crap Shooters sing "Oldest Established." (Photo provided — George Cordes)

Cast

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Dorran Boucher

Noah Cordes

Kirsten Denis

Nicely-Nicely Johnson (Bryce Davison) testifies at the mission meeting in "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat." (Photo provided — George Cordes)

Sophia Martin

Stephanie Fortune

Bryce Davison

Lowden Pratt

Dante Giacovelli

Sarah Brown (Kirsten Denis) and Miss Adelaide (Stephanie Fortune) commiserate about men in “Marry the Man Today” in Tupper Lake High School’s “Guys and Dolls.” (Photo provided — George Cordes)

Jonathan McCullouch

Emily Burns

Charlotte Price

Grace Mitchell

Lily St.Onge

Meika Nadeau

Jessica Mitchell

Hailey Bissonette

Logan Sutton

Emileigh Smith

Emily Sipler

Emily Roberts

Maurice Fortune

David Naone

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Stage crew

Jami Hubbard

Patricia Bankich

Jasmine Vallien

Kiana Nadeau

Genna Carmichael

Hayleigh Conlon

Kasandra Sipler

Matthew Whitmore

Johnathan Jauron

Crap Shooters watch as Nathan (Dorran Boucher) faces off with Big Jule (Jonathan McCullouch) in this weekend’s Tupper Lake High School musical “Guys and Dolls.” (Photo provided — George Cordes)

Noah Cordes as Sky Masterston and Kirsten Denis as Sarah Brown. (Photo provided — George Cordes)