BUS STOP
Directed by Bekka Eaton Reardon
Monday and Tuesday, August 3 & 4 at 6:30
Auditions will be held in the Classroom on the 2nd floor of the Arts Center
AUDITION REQUIREMENTS:
- Cold readings from the script.
- Bring your calendar to auditions and be prepared to list all conflicts.
- All roles are available. Color-blind casting.
IMPORTANT DATES:
- Performances:
September 25-26 & October 2-3 at 8PM, September 27 & October 4 at 2PM
About the Play
In the middle of a howling snowstorm, a bus out of Kansas City pulls up at a cheerful roadside diner. All roads are blocked, and the weary travelers are going to have to hole up until morning. Cherie, a nightclub chanteuse in a sparkling gown and a seedy fur-trimmed jacket, is the passenger with most to worry about. She’s been pursued, made love to and finally kidnapped by a twenty-one-year-old cowboy with a ranch of his own and the romantic methods of an unusually headstrong bull. The belligerent cowhand is right behind her, ready to sling her over his shoulder and carry her, alive and kicking, all the way to Montana. Even as she’s ducking out from under his clumsy but confident embraces, and screeching at him fiercely to shut him up, she pauses to furrow her forehead and muse, “Somehow deep inside of me I got a funny feeling I’m gonna end up in Montana …” As a counterpoint to the main romance, the proprietor of the cafe and the bus driver at last find time to develop a friendship of their own; a middle-age scholar comes to terms with himself; and a young girl who works in the cafe also gets her first taste of romance.
Role Breakdowns
- Elma Duckworth — high school-er, waitress, guileless and open, trusting, good worker, sweet
- Grace Hoylard — (30s-60s, dependent upon male opposite casting of Carl) diner owner, seasoned, worldly-wise won’t truck with much nonsense
- Will Masters — (30s-50s) the sheriff, large, capable, a good man and a good sheriff
- Cherie — (20s) a chanteuse, innocent at heart, but has seen a bit much of the world for her age, speaks her mind, not educated, but not unintelligent, from the Ozarks
- Dr. Gerald Lyman — (40s-50s) a former college professor, drinker, bit of a letch, life has beaten him down quite a bit
- Carl — (30s-60s, dependent upon female opposite casting of Grace) bus driver, friendly, hefty, loud and hearty, loves his independence
- Virgil Blessing — (40s-50s) Bo’s surrogate parent, guitar player, kind, quiet, a ranch hand-cowboy
- Bo Decker — (20s) big-hearted, enthusiastic – like a puppy not grown into his legs yet, self-confident to a fault, totally inexperienced in the ways of the world, he’s rarely been off of the ranch he was raised on, rancher, cowboy
Note: Color-blind casting
BUS STOP
