Bus Stop
by William Inge
Directed by Maurice McGill
February 15-18, 2001
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 four or five 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.
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Cast
Elma Duckworth - Damaris Garcia Grace Hoylard - Mary Mills Will Master - Ron Deaton Cherie - Julie Sparks Dr. Gerald Lyman - Scotty Kennedy Carl - Carl McNeill Virgil Blessing - Michael Martin Bo Decker - Torrey Lewey Crew Maurice McGill - Director Mary Dyer - Stage Manager JC Weeks - Lighting and Sound Todd Hardin - Set Design/Construction Scotty Kennedy - Set Design/Construction Linda Jackson - Set Design/Construction Mary Dyer - Set Design/Construction Linda Gray - Set Design/Construction Linda Clark - Set Design/Construction Clyniece Ledbetter - Hair and Makeup Jane Williams - Hair and Makeup Linda Jackson - Hair and Makeup Kathryn Cantrell - Hair and Makeup Linda Gray - Costumes Anne Vinson - Costumes Linda Gray - Props Anne Vinson - Props Nancy Frame - Box Office |
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