by Robert Harling
Through special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service
directed by Dean JohansonFriday,
April 5, 2024, at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 6, at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 7, at 2:00 p.m
SOLD OUT Sunday the 14th
Friday,
April 12, at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 13, at 7:30 p.m.
! Sunday, April 14, at 2:00 p.m
Sold Out!
Story Synopsis:
The action is set 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 give the play,
and its characters, the special quality to make them truly
touching, funny and marvelously amiable company in good times
and bad.