Bus Stop
by Fredericksburg Theater Company (FTC)

Feb. 02 - Feb. 03 (2019)

  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. 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.

 

            Auditions for FTC’s spring production Bus Stop are scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, February 2nd and 3rd, 2019 at 2:00 pm at the Steve W. Shepherd Theater, located at 1668 South U.S Highway 87 in Fredericksburg. All roles are available for auditions.

           Auditions will be conducted by cold readings from the script. Scripts for Bus Stop can be checked out at the Fredericksburg Theater Company offices at the same location. The checkout period is 48 hours. Office hours are Monday-Friday from 9 am to 1 pm.

 

          Attendance to technical week rehearsals, April 8th-11th is mandatory, as well as attendance at all performances. Performance dates are Thursday, April the 11th, and Friday’s, Saturday’s and Sunday’s, April 12th-April 28th. There is no performance on Easter Sunday, April 21st.

          

Character Descriptions:

Elma Duckworth: 16-20 High school student working as a waitress. Highly intelligent, but small town naïve. 

Grace Hoglard: 35-50 Owner of the restaurant. Straightforward, heart of gold, romantic, but tough cookie when she has to be.  

Will Masters: 40-55 Small town sheriff really understands people and a great sense of the right thing. 

Cherie: 20-30 A “chanteuse” sings in a nightclub from the Ozarks. 

Dr. Gerald Lyman: 35-50 A former college professor, alcoholic, with a penchant for younger women. 

Carl: 35-50 Bus driver. Man of the road, a Greyhound bus driver with truck driver mentality, but a good guy.

Virgil Blessing: 35-50 Ranch hand from Montana. Like a father to Bo. Pure old fashion cowboy. Helpful if he can play the guitar. 

Bo Decker: 20-35 Young rancher and very naïve cowboy. Loud and unrefined.