Auditions: Steel Magnolias

Name: Auditions: Steel Magnolias
Start: 2024-05-18T13:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-05-19T13:00:00-05:00
Location: 115 W. Rush Ave., Harrison, AR

Schedule

Sat May 18 2024 at 01:00 pm to Sun May 19 2024 at 01:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

115 W. Rush Ave., Harrison, AR | Harrison, AR

Comedy: Steel Magnolias
Ages 18 and up ONLY.
Auditions will consist of cold reads from the script.
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A brief resume and a photo will be of great assistance to the director; a professional headshop is not necessary, just a photo to help the director remember everyone correctly.
Auditions for Steel Magnolias will be May 18 and 19 at 1:00pm. Performance dates are August 8-11, 2024, with a tentative second weekend August 16-18.
Please Note: Unlike the film, the play has an all-female cast.
THE STORY: 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.
Concerned with a group of gossipy southern ladies in a small-town beauty parlor, the play is alternately hilarious and touching—and, in the end, deeply revealing of the strength and purposefulness which underlies the antic banter of its characters.