Jessica Biel can sing! That may come as a surprise to audiences who only know the actress from her primarily dramatic work on television and in films, including the long-running 7th Heaven, and the big-screen Stealth and The Illusionist.
Biel, 27, marks her major musical-theater debut this weekend at the Hollywood Bowl, as the Los Angeles Philharmonic presents a three-night run of a concert version of the classic Guys and Dolls.
"I haven't really done anything like this," Biel said. "Well, I did one thing in college. I did a concert version of 'Tommy' when I was in college. But, other than that ..."
For Guys and Dolls, Biel takes on the role of saintly Sarah Brown, a Manhattan missionary at odds with a gang of gamblers and eventually in love with one of them.
Does she take into consideration Broadway? "Oh, yeah. I would love to," Biel said. "Literally, that is one of my eight-year-old dreams. That's like my little eight-year-old inside me is cartwheeling around, thinking about that idea."
