Steel Magnolias
by Robert Harling
Directed by Amanda DeMaio
Friends remind you that time marches on, and then you realize it's marched right across your face…
The play that sparked the movie - Steel Magnolias is centered around the ladies of a small-town beauty parlor. This play is as hilarious as it is touching and in the end, deeply revealing of the strength and purposefulness which underlies the lasting friendships between these women.
Performs:
May 7th - June 5th
Friday and Saturday at 8 PM and Sunday at 2 PM
Auditions Saturday March 13, at 10:00 am
Brush up on your best Southern accent! Auditions will consist of reading short sides from the script.
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Play Synopsis
The action centers on Truvy's beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana . The play begins on the morning of Shelby 's wedding to Jackson and covers events over the next several years, including Shelby 's decision to have a child despite having diabetes and the complications that result from that decision.
We also get a glimpse of the unlikely friendship between Clairee and Ouiser; and over the course of the play we watch Truvy’s new assistant, Annelle transform from a shy, anxious newcomer in town to a partying woman and then to a religious fundamentalist. Although the main storyline involves Shelby, her mother (M’Lynn) and Shelby 's medical battles, the underlying group-friendship among the women is prominent throughout.
Filled with hilarious repartee and not a few acerbic but humorously revealing verbal collisions, the play moves toward tragedy when, in the second act, the spunky Shelby risks pregnancy and forfeits her life. The sudden realization of their mortality affects the others, but also draws on the underlying strength, and love, which gives the play, and its characters, the special quality to make them truly touching, funny and marvelously amiable company in good times and bad.
Character Breakdown:
*Truvy Jones: owner of the beauty shop (30’s – 50’s)
*Annelle Dupuy-Desoto: Beauty shop assistant (20’s – mid-30’s)
*Clairee Belcher: rich widow of the former town mayor (40’s – 50’s)
*Shelby Eatenton: 20’s
*M’Lynn Eatenton: Socially prominent career woman (40’s – 50’s)
*Ouiser Boudreaux: The towns wealthy curmudgeon (40’s – 50’s)
Rehearsals will be at STAGEStheatre:
April 5 - May 6, Monday - Thursday nights, 7pm - 10pm
Performances are May 7 - June 12, Fri & Sat at 8pm, Sundays at 2pm
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