Sierra Madre Playhouse continues its series of free monthly staged readings of American plays on December 11 at 7:30 p.m. with Bus Stop by William Inge, directed by Barbara Schofield. 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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The Hudson Theatre (11/7 - 12/15) | ||
Star Wars in Concert John Williams Spotlight
Walt Disney Concert Hall (11/21 - 11/24) | ||
Leslie Odom, Jr. The Christmas Tour - Deck the Hall Holiday Concerts
Walt Disney Concert Hall (12/1 - 12/1) | ||
The Nutcracker
Royce Hall - UCLA (12/13 - 12/15) | ||
Put Your Guns Down
Bram Goldsmith Theater at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts (5/24 - 5/24) | ||
Urban Bush Women
The Music Center's Mark Taper Forum (11/22 - 11/24) | ||
Holiday on Strings
Bob Baker Marionette Theater (11/16 - 1/12) | ||
Cinderella
One More Productions at The GEM Theatre (11/7 - 12/15) | ||
Chamber Music & Wine: Brahms, Beach, and the Piano
Walt Disney Concert Hall (1/7 - 1/7) | ||
Jesus Christ Superstar
Coachella Valley Repertory (3/13 - 3/13) | ||
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