Steel Magnolias
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Date & Time
Fri, Mar 18 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Sat, Mar 19 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Sun, Mar 20 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Fri, Mar 25 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Sat, Mar 26 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Sun, Mar 27 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Fri, Apr 01 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Sat, Apr 02 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Sun, Apr 03 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Fri, Apr 08 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Sat, Apr 09 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Sun, Apr 10 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Address (map)
113 S. Montgomery Street
The action takes place in Truvy’s beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana, where all the ladies who are “anybody” come to have their hair done.
Helped by her eager new assistant, Annelle (who is not sure whether or not she is still married), the outspoken, wise-cracking Truvy dispenses shampoos and free advice to the town’s rich curmudgeon, Ouiser, (“I’m not crazy, I’ve just been in a bad mood for forty years”); an eccentric millionaire, Miss Clairee, who has a raging sweet tooth; and the local social leader, M’Lynn, whose daughter, Shelby (the prettiest girl in town), is about to marry a “good ole boy.”
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 (who is a diabetic) 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.