Open Auditions for Proscenium Players production of 'Bus Stop'
Submitted by Carson Now Reader on Wed, 12/07/2016 - 2:09am
Event Date:
December 9, 2016 - 6:30pm Proscenium Players, Inc. announces open auditions for their upcoming production of Bus Stop, by William Inge. Interested actors are invited to audition on December 9 or December 12 at 6:30pm or on December 11 at 2:00pm at the Brewery Arts Center in the 1864 Ballroom. Performances are slated for weekends from March 24 to April 2, 2017.
Auditions will consist of cold readings from the scripts and from sides. To request sides for your audition, please email ppicarsoncity@yahoo.com. All actors selected are expected to join Proscenium Players, Inc. as members.
Bus Stop is a drama, with romantic and comedic elements. It is set in a 1955 diner in rural Kansas, during a snowstorm and showcases the relationships between the characters as they wait out the storm.
It's an entertaining play that became the 1956 film Bus Stop starring Marylin Monroe and Don Murray.
The characters are:
Grace Hoylard – Owner of the diner, a "grass widow". She is fortyish, and pretty in a fading, hard-bitten way. She has a passionate side to her nature, loving a good fight and the attentions of a good man.
Elma Duckworth – An intelligent, but naive and impressionable high school girl. She is Grace's waitress.
Will Masters – The local sheriff. Tough as nails and brusque in manner, but goodhearted and a staunch Christian, described as a "deacon of his church". A highly "moral" man in the general sense of the word.
Dr. Gerald Lyman – A college philosophy professor who is articulate and charming but cannot hold a position, partially due to his resistance to any kind of authority, and partially due to his unfortunate taste for young women. He also has an obvious drinking problem.
Cherie – A pretty young woman who comes from a difficult "hill folk" background, and has left her innocence far behind. She is an aspiring nightclub singer, but has never worked in any establishment above the level of "cheap dive". Has ability to sing.
Bo Decker – A brash young cowboy with boorish manners that hide a naivete almost as profound as Elma's. He has convinced himself that Cherie will be his bride, though Cherie wants nothing to do with him.
Virgil Blessing – An older, wiser cowboy who has become a father figure to Bo (who was orphaned at the age of ten) as well as Bo's head ranch hand. Plays guitar.
Carl – The bus driver, who has an ongoing "just passing through" relationship with Grace.
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