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Property of Leddy Center for the Performing Arts.
By Robert Harling
Performed with permission of Dramatists Play Service, New York, NY
Directed by: Paul H. LeFevre II Artistic Director: Elaine Gatchell Assisted by: Michael Coppola
Starring: Linda Carter as M'Lynn Diane Day as Annelle
Sarah Dickinson as Shelby Linda Gauthier as Clairee
Ellen M. Gregg as Truvy Debra Marcotte as Ouiser
The close-knit women at Truvy's Beauty
Salon, the unofficial hub of Chinquapin, LA, have lots of time to gossip.
Their husbands - either absent, depressed, or dead - have made sure of that. Consequently, visitors to the
salon get more than just a wash and cut.
The wise-cracking Truvy, with the help of her new glamour technician Annelle, dispenses shampoo with liberal doses of free advice and gossip to the
town's curmudgeon, Ouiser, an eccentric millionaire, Miss Clairee, and the local
town social worker, M'Lynn, whose daughter, Shelby, is on the verge of marriage.
Alternately hilarious and touching, the play focuses on the camaraderie of these
six Southern women who gab, gossip,
chitchat, needle and harangue each other through the best of times - and cry,
caress, comfort and repair one another through the worst. They are soul mates in a rarefied way that assumes a
cult of femininity - sisters come hell and high water.
Pushing laughter and pain together, Steel Magnolias pulls tears from even the most
cynical eyes. The women at Truvy's Beauty Salon are the steel
magnolias of the title: Southern belles, flowery on the outside, but strong enough inside
to survive any challenge, many of which are presented through the course of
the narrative.
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