

Tickets for a pre-theater event on Saturday, Oct. “It’s kind of special times 10, because it’s my first show and it’s also such a good one.”Īlso in the cast is Chris O’Connor as Carl the bus driver, Larry Moreno as cowboy Virgil Blessing and Frank Pepito as Sheriff Will Masters. everybody has been a dream to work with,” Dye said. “It’s been a real easy time to get into character and get to work because it didn’t feel like you’re an outsider coming in,” Plunkett said.ĭye recently moved to California and “Bus Stop” was her first audition here. Plunkett called everyone “nice and welcoming.” While most of the cast of “But Stop” are veterans, Plunkett, Dye and Lombardozzi are new to MBCC.
#Bus stop william inge script professional
“I start out as a happy drunk and during the course of the play as I continue to drink I become a philosophical drunk, then a morose despondent drunk, and then back to a happier drunk,” Adams said.įor more than six decades, the Manhattan Beach Community Church has attracted professional and fledgling actors to its stage. Gerald Lyman, an “alcoholic professor who goes through a catharsis.”

“So when she was finally old enough, she got out and wanted to follow her dreams.”ĭan Adams plays Dr. “Cherie is from the Ozarks, so she’s from a little town, and she has a lot of brothers and sisters, she kind of took care of them pretty much her whole life,” Lombardozzi said. “But being young and dumb and just trying to think of a lot of the things that happened to me, happening for the first time in my life, thinking about those experiences but showing those for the first time, experiencing for the first time on stage, that’s an interesting thing to try to do.”Ĭherie, played by Jessica Lombardozzi, is “confused what she wants in life” even though she has ambitions as a singer.

“The challenge is playing young and remembering being young and dumb… being old and dumb is different, that’s easy,” Plunkett said. “She sees thing through a prism of innocence and optimism and can be kind of oblivious to the darker, more unseemly things going on around her,” Dye said.īo Decker is a “cowboy fresh off the farm” who is “boisterous and untamed,” according to Shawn Plunkett, who has eyes for an aspiring singer, Cherie, to be his bride.
