Bus Stop Program

WILLIAM INGE’S

BUS STOP MONTANA RepeRTORy THeATRe

SATURdAy, FEB. 19 – 7:30 p.m.

Join us in the Seymour Gallery (second floor) for a pre-performance discussion with Professor Jack Wright at 6:30 p.m. as well as a post-performance Coffee and Conversation chat after the show with members of the cast and representatives from the Inge Center for the Arts, and enjoy the William Inge lobby exhibit during intermission. As part of its residency, members of Montana Rep presented a workshop with high school theatre students. For more information on Lied Center education and engagement activities visit lied.ku.edu, sign up for the e-newsletter and join us on Facebook and Twitter.

This program is presented in part by the Kansas Arts Commission, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.

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Professional Theatre from the Heart of the Rockies

By William Directed by

Inge Jere Lee Hodgin featuring

Doug Dion

Erin Mae Johnson

Hannah Boreal

Kanengieter

Aleks Malejs*

Rick Martino*

Andy Meyers

Jackson Palmer

J.R. Robinson*

Matt Warner

Scenic Design

Bill Raoul

Costume Design Christine L. Milodragovich

Lighting Design Sound Design Adam Schuff Jayson L. Ferguson

Properties Artisan Stage Manager

Johanna Josephian Jessica Veen*

CAST OF CHARACTERS Grace Hoylard...............................................................................................................................Aleks Malejs* Will Masters...................................................................................................................................Rick Martino* Virgil Blessin.................................................................................................................................J.R. Robinson* Cherie................................................................................................................... Hannah Boreal Kanengieter Bo Decker...................................................................................................................................Jackson Palmer Elma Duckworth....................................................................................................................Erin Mae Johnson Carl................................................................................................................................................... Andy Meyers Dr. Gerald Lyman........................................................................................................................... Matt Warner Understudy..........................................................................................................................................Doug Dion

SETTING & SCENES The action of the play takes place in a street-corner restaurant in a small town about 30 miles west of Kansas City.

ACT ONE A night in early March, 1 a.m.

- 20-minute intermission -

ACT TWO A few minutes later - 10-minute intermission -

ACT THREE Early morning, about 5 a.m.

Bus Stop, by William Inge, is presented by arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

William Inge’s Bus Stop Montana Repertory Theatre

*member of Actors’ Equity Association

FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

For many of us who grew to awareness in the 1950s, Bus Stop is a classic American story.

Marilyn Monroe’s entrance in the film version is imbedded in our consciousness. William Inge’s biggest hit and his only out-and-out comedy, Bus Stop truly exemplifies America’s postwar awakening and introduces characters that have since become new cultural icons.

Inge’s American masterpiece still speaks to us in the new century. Rich with character and plot and the message that “we’re all in this together,” Bus Stop shows that our lives are truly intertwined; we affect each other in subtle and profound ways as we go about our daily lives.

Few playwrights are able to make the everyday universal and the commonplace the stuff of great theatre. Inge is one of these playwrights.

It is with great pleasure that Montana Rep presents the work of this American master.

We trust you will find in him, as we have, a font of insight, tenderness, soulful understanding, great heart and rollicking, life-affirming humor.

Welcome to the world of William Inge––you will not leave unchanged.

Thank you for supporting live theatre!

Greg Johnson Artistic Director

THE PLAYWRIGHT / WILLIAM INGE

William Inge was born in Independence, Kan., on May 3, 1913, the youngest of five children. He became fascinated with the theatre at a young age, as Independence, a wealthy white-collar town, was a frequent venue for touring shows and renowned entertainers.

Inge graduated in 1935 from the University of Kansas with a bachelor’s degree in speech and drama. He briefly considered pursuing an acting career in New York City, but instead began graduate studies at the George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, dropping out before finishing a master’s degree. Of this period in his life, Inge said, “I sort of based my life on the theatre. Having given up the theatre, I had given up the basis that I’d set my life upon. I was terribly confused. I went home to Kansas and began to flounder.”

After working as a laborer, Inge found employment as a news announcer and taught high school English and drama. In 1938 he returned to Peabody College and finished his master’s degree, then joined the faculty at Stephens College in Columbia, Mo. Inge moved to St. Louis in 1943, where he was employed as a drama critic for the St. Louis Times. He became acquainted with Tennessee Williams and attended a Chicago performance of The Glass Menagerie with the playwright. This experience was life-changing for Inge. “I was terrifically moved by the play,” he later wrote. “I thought it was the finest I had seen in many years. I went back to St. Louis and felt, ‘Well, I’ve got to write a play.’” Three months later, he had completed Farther Off from Heaven, which was produced in Dallas.

Inge took a teaching position at Washing-

ton University in St. Louis and began reworking one of his short stories for the theatre. The resulting play, Come Back, Little Sheba, won Inge the title of most promising playwright of the 1950 Broadway season.

In 1953 Inge’s play Picnic, based in part on characters from his Kansas boyhood, opened in New York City. The play, which explored the sadness and emptiness of a spinster schoolteacher’s life, won a Pulitzer Prize, the Drama Circle Award, the Outer Circle Award and the Theatre Club Award. Film versions of Come Back, Little Sheba and Picnic were released in 1953 and 1954, respectively.

In 1955 Inge experienced further success with the Broadway opening of his new hit comedy, Bus Stop, and the next year saw the release of a film version. The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, a reworking of his earlier play Farther Off from Heaven, opened on Broadway in 1957. The play, which incorporates elements from Inge’s past, is widely considered to be his finest. It, too, was later released as a film.

Splendor in the Grass, Inge’s first screenplay, was filmed in New York in 1960. A resounding success, the film earned Inge an Academy Award for best screenplay.

Inge’s subsequent plays were unsuccessful, and he left New York City. He taught briefly at the University of California, Irvine, and wrote two novels, but suffered increasingly from depression. He committed suicide at his home in Hollywood in 1973. Inge is buried in his hometown, where his headstone reads simply, “Playwright.”

For further information, visit the William Inge Center for the Arts website at ingecenter.org.

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WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST ALEKS MALEJS* (Grace Hoylard) is thrilled to be returning to Montana Rep as Grace in Bus Stop. Previous Rep shows include My Way: A Tribute to Frank Sinatra and the 1999 national tour of It’s a Wonderful Life. A graduate of The University of Montana, Malejs’ UM roles included The House of Bernarda Alba (La Poncia) and The Threepenny Opera (Lowdive Jenny). Malejs currently lives in New York City, where she just completed her master’s degree at The New School for Drama. Her favorite roles in New York include Richard III (Queen Elizabeth), Orestes 2.0 (Electra) and Beirut (Blue). Malejs is a member of the Rep’s Equity Company.

ERIN MAE JOHNSON (Elma Duckworth) graduated from The University of Montana with a degree in environmental studies in December.

She now wants to be an actor. Most recently, Johnson appeared in productions with UM School of Theatre & Dance and Montana Rep Missoula. She is deeply grateful for the support of her family and friends.

HANNAH BOREAL KANENGIETER (Cherie) joins Montana Rep again, having toured last year in Leading Ladies (Audrey). She is thrilled to be out on the road again, looking forward to surprises and adventures on stage and off, and is thankful to be working with such a spectacular cast and crew. She will be graduating this year with a bachelor’s degree in acting and make-believe, and can’t wait to see where her feet will land next if they do at all.

She thanks her family and friends for all of the laughing and dancing. “Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.”— ­ William Inge RICK MARTINO* (Will Masters) makes his tour debut in Bus Stop with Montana Rep. Since moving to Missoula from Los Angeles, Martino has performed with Montana Rep Missoula in Glengarry Glen Ross (Moss), Waiting for Lefty (Joe/Dr. Benjamin), Jane Doe or That There Dead Girl (Ike) and Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? (Martin, the goatloving architect). Additional roles in Missoula include An Xmas Present (Ghost of Christmas Past) and On Golden Pond (Bill) with David Ackroyd and Dawn Didawick, directed by Greg Johnson. Earlier stage work in Boston and William Inge’s Bus Stop Montana Repertory Theatre

Hartford, Conn. includes The Glass Menagerie (Tom), Streamers (Billy) and The Lion in Winter (Philip, the King of France). Martino originated the role of Steve in both the one-act and the full-length versions of Been Taken by Roger Hedden, opposite Helen Hunt, Mary Stuart Masterson and Andrew McCarthy at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York. Also at E.S.T., he originated the role of Billy Tune in Hedden’s Terry Neal’s Future with Cecilia Peck and reprised the role in Los Angeles opposite Elisabeth Shue, directed by Johnson. Martino is originally from Suffield, Conn., where he grew up with his seven sisters and two brothers. Martino is a member of the Rep’s Equity Company.

ANDY MEYERS (Carl) appeared in the national tour of Annie (Bert Healy) directed

by Martin Charnin, off-Broadway in the 35th Anniversary revival of Dames at Sea (Dick) and in Circle of Friends (Uncle Gard). He has performed at theatres across the country, including the Tony Award-winning McCarter, Papermill and Luna in Little Shop of Horrors (Seymour), Art (Yvan), Jesus Christ Superstar (Judas), The Full Monty (Malcolm), Big River (Huck Finn) and more. Meyers is a graduate of Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Boston, Wagner College in New York City and is currently pursuing his master’s degree in musical theatre at University of Montana where he played Barfee in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and Berger in Hair.

JACKSON PALMER (Bo Decker) is happy to be working with Montana Rep again in such an amazing show. A native Montanan, Palmer now lives and works in Los Angeles. His past stage productions include Leading Ladies, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tartuffe, Burn This and The House of Blue Leaves. Many thanks to his family and friends back home for all the support.

J.R. ROBINSON* (Virgil Blessing) is pleased to return to the Rep, having toured previously in Lost in Yonkers and The Trip to Bountiful.

Other credits include Wit (Dr. Kelekian), The Miracle Worker (Captain Keller), the roles of Gabe and Tom in productions of Dinner With Friends, Carl in Baltimore Waltz and Dr. Gibbs in Our Town. He’s played Oberon, Romeo, Mercutio, Caliban and Robin Hood. He has also appeared onstage in New York City and in

all the daytime dramas (usually briefly, and often saying, “I now pronounce you...”). Robinson also works as a fight director for theater, film and television and played the role of Chief Potts in the feature film, Proud. Robinson is a member of the Rep’s Equity Company.

MATT WARNER (Dr. Gerald Lyman) was raised in Havre, Mont. and is a recent graduate of the University of Montana with a bachelor’s degree in English literature. He has appeared in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Visit, Absurd Person Singular, Rumors, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, Good Clean Fun, Kissing, Closer and Boomtown. Dr. Lyman is Warner’s first role with Montana Rep, and he couldn’t be happier.

JERE LEE HODGIN (Director) has a master’s degree in acting and directing from the University of Georgia and more than 25 years of experience in academic and professional theatre.

He has produced more than 200 productions, many of which were new and premiere works, and his directing career includes more than 175 plays, operas and musicals. For 20 years he was the producing artistic director of Mill Mountain Theatre, where he founded the nationally recognized Norfolk Southern New Play Festival. Hodgin served as artistic director and co-producer of Highlands Playhouse in North Carolina and has directed at numerous theatres, including Walnut Street Theater, Barter Theatre, Phoenix Theatre and Wayside Theatre.

Hodgin has directed new works at Shenandoah Playwright’s Retreat, The Missoula Colony and the Phoenix Theatre New Play Festival. He has served as a National Endowment for the Arts site visitor and has been a member of a number of NEA creativity panels. He has also been a regional panelist for the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and a theatre panelist for the Idaho, South Carolina and North Carolina arts commissions. Hodgin is a past president of the Southeastern Theatre Conference, where he also chaired the playwriting committee.

He served as vice-president of the board of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, for which he has been co-chair of new works and a member of the Festival of New Works committee. Hodgin has been a reader and judge for numerous national new play contests and competitions and is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Actors’ Equity Association, Theatre Communications

Group and the National Theatre Conference.

He received the Perry F. Kendig Award in recognition of his efforts to champion the arts in Southwestern Virginia and was named the 1999 Citizen of the Year in Roanoke, Va. JAYSON L. FERGUSON (Sound Designer) is a lifelong student of music and music production. He worked for Axcess Broadcast Services in Dallas, Texas, the jingle studio responsible for McDonald’s Have You Had Your Break Today?

He was a sound designer/engineer for Timberwolf Entertainment, which published such fiction titles as Bradament, Calculated Risk and All the Tea, narrated by Walter Koenig of Star Trek. He has since focused on live production, touring with such plays as Baby Mama Drama, Issues and If This Hat Could Talk. Ferguson worked for Big House Sound in Austin, Texas, where he was involved with a wide variety of events, from those produced by R.E.M. to appearances by the current president of the United States. After two years on the road as the monitor engineer for Blues Traveler, Ferguson moved to Missoula, where he now teaches sound design at the University of Montana.

KATIE HANSON (Company Manager) is a native of Montana and is ecstatic to be touring with the Rep again. She stage-managed the Rep’s statewide production of Frankenstein, and currently freelances in technical services and stage management when not touring. Hanson takes great pride in her role as Montana Rep’s company manager. She would like to thank her family and friends for always supporting her fascination with the arts, no matter how far away it may take her.

GREG JOHNSON (Montana Rep Artistic Director) has served as artistic director of the Montana Rep since 1990. He brings with him a commitment to excellence developed during years of experience in the New York theatre, where he worked with the best directors, choreographers, actors, designers and playwrights in the country. From Neil Simon and Gene Saks to Hugh Leonard, Melvin Bernhardt, Elizabeth Ashley, Beth Henley, Christine Baranski, Andie MacDowell and Barnard Hughes, Johnson has been privileged to work with the finest.

He brings his energy and expertise to every aspect of his involvement with Montana Rep. Johnson’s Broadway credits include Biloxi Blues, Crimes of the Heart, Is There Life After High School?, Da and Hide and Seek.

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National tours include the Broadway productions of Steel Magnolias, Crimes of the Heart and Biloxi Blues. Johnson spent 19 years working in the professional theatre in New York City as an actor, stage manager and director before heading to Montana to head Montana Rep. Since joining the Rep, Johnson has directed and produced more than 100 theatre events, including Broadway Bound, The Heidi Chronicles, Someone Who’ll Watch over Me, Lend Me a Tenor, Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, The Real Thing, The Voice of The Prairie, Thom Pain, Ashes to Ashes, The Dumbwaiter, Anton in Show Business, Eating ’round the Bruise and Antigone: 2026. He also directed the national tours of It’s a Wonderful Life, Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Trip to Bountiful, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and To Kill a Mockingbird. In addition, he is responsible for the development of The Missoula Colony: A Celebration of Artists in Support of the Writers’ Craft at the University of Montana, and Montana Rep Missoula, which brings cuttingedge theatre to downtown audiences. Johnson has served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and, with the Rep, is a member of Theatre Communications Group, a national network of regional theatres. He serves on the faculty of The University of Montana College of Visual and Performing Arts.

CHRISTINE L. MILODRAGOVICH (Costume Designer) recently retired as a professor in the School of Theatre & Dance at the University of Montana, where her teaching focused on costume design, costume history, costume construction and crafts, pattern development and textiles. When designing costumes and quilt elements for the play Quilters, she was seriously bitten by the quilting bug. In the intervening years she has explored quilting as an art form, venturing beyond traditional patterns and fabrics. Her work as a quilt artist serves to inform her costume designs, particularly in regard to color, texture and scale. Recent creative activity in costume design includes A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman and

To Kill a Mockingbird for Montana Rep national tours, as well as A Christmas Carol, Amadeus and The Heiress for UM. Milodragovich also recently designed costumes for Headwaters Dance Company.

BILL RAOUL (Scenic Designer) retired from the University of Montana after 27 years in the School of Theatre & Dance. His professional design work began in Seattle, where he designed 21 productions for A Contemporary Theatre. His textbook, Stock Scenery Construction: A Handbook is used in schools across the country. His lifelong love of music is reflected in The Sound Designer’s Companion (2008). Both books are published by Broadway Press.

ADAM SCHUFF (Lighting Designer) is excited to be returning to the Rep as lighting designer and master electrician for Bus Stop.

He completed his bachelor’s degree in design/ technology with an emphasis in lighting at the University of Montana in 2009. His recent experience includes serving as lighting director and production manager for the Moscow Ballet’s international tours of The Great Russian Nutcracker and Swan Lake. He previously toured with the Rep as master electrician for Leading Ladies and assistant electrician for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. He has also worked with PRG Lighting in Las Vegas, Bigfork Summer Playhouse and Fort Peck Summer Theatre.

Schuff is happy to be returning to Montana Rep and looks forward to an exciting tour and an outstanding production.

JESSICA VEEN* (Stage Manager) attended the University of Montana School of Theatre & Dance and began working with Montana Rep as an assistant stage manager in her junior year. This is her fifth national tour with the Rep, and she is excited to be taking on the role of stage manager. Veen thanks her family, friends and wonderful husband for all their support. Veen is a member of the Rep’s Equity Company.

* member of Actors’ Equity Association Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 45,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote, and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. actorsequity.org

William Inge’s Bus Stop Montana Repertory Theatre

MONTANA REPERTORY THEATRE Montana Rep, an Equity company based at the University of Montana in Missoula, has been touring for more than 40 years. In recent years the company has toured its productions of It’s a Wonderful Life, The Diary of Anne Frank, Death of a Salesman, The Miracle Worker, A Streetcar Named Desire, Steel Magnolias, The Trip to Bountiful, Lost in Yonkers, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, To Kill a Mockingbird and Leading Ladies, presenting more than 450 performances in 350 communities from California to New York.

The professional ensemble Principal roles are played by actors whose past credits have included Broadway runs and national tours of A Chorus Line, Crimes of the Heart, Into the Woods, Biloxi Blues, Steel Magnolias, Pump Boys and Dinettes, Cabaret, The Will Rogers Follies, George M! and Execution of Justice, as well as major motion pictures.

The Montana Rep operates under an agreement with Actors’ Equity Association and the University/Resident Theatre Association. montanarep.org Exclusive booking management Rena Shagan 16A West 88th Street New York, NY 10024 212-873-9700 shaganarts.com

The University of Montana With a student population of approximately 14,000, the University of Montana is located in the Rocky Mountains in Missoula (population 65,000), less than a day’s drive from Glacier and Yellowstone national parks.

Montana Rep is in residence at the College of Visual and Performing Arts, which includes bachelor’s and master’s degree programs in art, media arts, music and theatre & dance.

As the professional theatre-in-residence at the University of Montana, Montana Rep offers theatre students unique educational opportunities.

UM is one of very few universities in the nation to house a professional touring company, and the only one that incorporates students and faculty into the company. Students who tour with Montana Rep work alongside seasoned actors, directors, designers and technical crew members, and gain experience that other academic programs cannot offer.

To learn more about Montana Rep theatre seasons and academic programs, please visit these websites: Montana Repertory Theatre montanarep.org montana.rep@umontana.edu School of Theatre & Dance umt.edu/theatredance umtheatredance.org umtheatredance@umontana.edu College of Visual and Performing Arts umt.edu/umarts University of Montana umt.edu

MONTANA REP is funded in part by a grant from the Montana Arts Council (an agency of state government), with support from the Montana State Legislature, The University of Montana, the Montana Cultural Trust, and Dr. Cathy Capps.

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STAFF FOR

The Rep’s Crew Company Manager..................................Katie Hanson Assistant Stage Manager/Props...................................

Annie Rottenbiller Tour Technical Director.................. Annie Rottenbiller Head Carpenter.............................................Doug Dion Master Electrician......................................Adam Schuff Electrician......................................................Devin Watts Audio Engineer.................................. Morgan Cerovski Wardrobe......................................................... Emily Merli Costume Shop Manager..............Lisa Marie Hyslop Costume Shop Staff...................Rebecca Coleman, Anne Hua, Emily Merli, Staci Weigum Construction Technical Director..........Mike Monsos Scene Construction Staff......................... Doug Dion, Matt Gibbons, Shane Hermes, Johanna Josephian, Zak King, Richard Leeds, Josh Legate, Ryan Luwe, Karl Mitchell, Trevor Muller-Hegel Scenic Painter................................Johanna Josephian Light Shop Manager................................... Joey Sarno Prop Shop Managers..................... Jessica Goldade, Clayton Improta, Kylie Johns The Rep’s staff Artistic Director........................................ Greg Johnson Production Manager...........................Jason McDaniel Assistant to the Artistic Director......Salina Chatlain Educational Outreach Coordinator...............................

Teresa Waldorf Office Assistant......................................Nichole Pellant Playwright-in-Residence......................Roger Hedden

William Inge’s Bus Stop Montana Repertory Theatre

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