Earlier this year, we had to cancel Bus Stop performances ... but the show must go on!. We have brought back our talented cast and crew to return this wonderful play to the stage.

Bus Stop is the touching story of a footloose torch singer who knows too much about men, and a cowboy who doesn’t know enough about women. The combination is truly electric!

Bo Decker is a champion bronco-buster, ‘n steer-roper, ‘n bull-dogger. He had his picture taken for Life magazine. But he’s as green as spring grass when it comes to Cherie.

Cherie is a chanteuse. “I call m’self Cherie. Thass all the name ya need -- like Hildegarde.” She won an amateur contest that got her a job at the Blue Dragon. But working in a nightclub ain’t all roses.

The play is set in a diner about 25 miles west of Kansas City in early March 1955. A freak snowstorm has halted the bus, and the eight characters (five on the bus) have a weather-enforced layover in the diner from approximately 1 am to 5 am. Romantic or quasi-romantic relationships include Grace and Carl, Professor Lyman and Elma, and Cherie and Bo. Virgil and Will are the older authority figures outside the relationships.

Bus Stop is a 1955 play by American playwright William Inge. Produced on Broadway, it was nominated for four Tony awards in 1956. It received major revivals in the United States and United Kingdom in 2010 and 2011. Bus Stop was adapted as a 1956 film of the same name, directed by Joshua Logan and starring Marilyn Monroe and Don Murray. It was adapted as a 26-episode TV series, produced by ABC. A special theater production from the Claremont Theater in California was aired in 1982 on HBO.

Playwright William Inge's inspiration of boy-pursuing-girl for Bus Stop came from a similar situation he’d seen on a bus trip to Kansas City. In Inge’s small-town dramas we find the most prosaic of people in the most ordinary of circumstances. His characters are not larger than life, rather they are all too human.

Performing Sep 9-10, Sep 15-17, and Sep 22-24 at the General Gomez Arts and Events Center at 808 Lincoln Way in Auburn. Tickets: $30 at the door. Advanced ticket prices are $25 for general seating.

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