Gene Golaszewski of Brookfield will direct the production, which calls for four men and five women.Īll roles are available. Auditions will run from 7 to 9 pm each night.Īll the ingredients are there for an intriguing thriller: murder, romance, comedy, a stormy night, and all the usual suspects in a stately mansion. Auditions for Design For Murder, George Batson’s classic murder mystery comedy, will take place Tuesday and Wednesday, September 8-9. In addition, the company is already looking ahead to the production that will serve as the finalé for Town Players’s 80th anniversary season. Performances (and auditions, see below) are held at The Little Theatre, at 18 Orchard Hill Road. Town Players of Newtown is a community theater, currently in its 80th anniversary season. Reservations can also be made and paid for online, by visiting. Tickets can be reserved by calling the box office, 20, or sending an email to They will be held at the door and can be paid for with cash, check or Visa, MasterCard or Discover. Saturday, September 25 will serve as a benefit performance contact Town Players or visit its website for additional information. Tickets are $22 for evening performances, $18 for the matinees, and $10 for ages 10 and under. Sunday afternoon matinees, with 2 pm curtain, are planned for September 13 and 20. Performances will continue Friday and Saturday evenings, until September 26, also at 8. Ticket holders on Friday will be invited to join the cast and crew for a post-performance champagne reception, celebrating both opening night and the fact that the production is a 2015 Newtown Arts Festival event. The production crew includes producers Lynn Alexander and Tracy Nashel, set designer Timothy Huebenthal, lighting designer Nick Kaye, lights and sound operator Becca Cardozo, and stage manager Terry Polvay. The cast of the Town Players production includes Tony Benedetti, Clare Boyle, Christopher Cooney, Barbara Disraeli, Miles Everett, Leah Nashel, Tom Torpey and Steve Yudelson. he brings to the theatre a kind of warm-hearted compassion, creative vigor, freshness of approach and appreciation of average humanity that can be wonderfully touching and stimulating.”
The New York Times said the playwright “put together an uproarious comedy that never strays from the truth,” while The New York Post noted: “William Inge should be a great comfort to all of us. The 1956 film starring Marilyn Monroe was loosely based on the stage play.
The singer and the other passengers make personal connections and confront the dissatisfactions experienced in their own lives.įirst produced on Broadway in 1955, Bus Stop continues to be popular because of modern audiences’s longing for a simpler, more innocent past. As a result of the delay, a disillusioned bar singer must deal a little longer with the attentions of a rowdy (but still wet behind the ears) young cowboy who insists he will marry her. In William Inge’s drama, a busload of passengers find respite from a storm as well as friendship and romance.īus Stop begins when a bus is forced to stop at a cheerful roadside diner in Kansas City during a snowstorm. Brian DeToma is directing the next production at The Little Theater, Bus Stop.
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