playing SOON

Directed by Stephanie McClain Bollinger

July 18 to August 10

Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.

Sunday Matinees at 2:00 p.m.

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 jacked, 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. As a counterpoint to the main romance, the proprietor of the cafe and the bus driver at least 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.