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Summer Orlando Productions Presents: Steel Magnolias
Summer Orlando Productions Presents
Robert Harling's
Steel Magnolias
May 13th 2018
Showtimes: 2pm & 7pm
Tickets:
Advanced Online Ticket: $15
Tickets at the Door: $20
Special Mothers Day Package: $25 (includes full Brunch and drag show starring camp queen Dandy Lions and CT premier live singing Barbra Streisand impersonator Barbra Joan Streetsand at 168 York st cafe at 12pm before the 2pm performance and a ticket to the 2pm performance.
* The Brunch and drag show prior to to the showing of The Production is its own entity and in no way a part of the Licensed stage production being performed. It is a themed Mothers Day Brunch, to get everyone in the southern family spirit before the show.
About the show:
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 strengthand lovewhich give the play, and its characters, the special quality to make them truly touching, funny and marvelously amiable company in good times and bad.
A first play which met with immediate critical and popular acceptance in its premier production by New York's WPA Theatre. Concerned with a group of gossipy southern ladies in a small-town beauty parlor, the play is alternately hilarious and touchingand, in the end, deeply revealing of the strength and purposefulness which underlies the antic banter of its characters. "Harling has given his women sharp, funny dialogueThe play builds to a conclusion that is deeply moving." NY Daily News. "a skillfully crafted, lovingly evoked picture of eccentricity in the small-town SouthRobert Harling is a new voice in the theatre and the qualities of STEEL MAGNOLIAS suggest he may be an important one." Drama-Logue. "suffused with humor and tinged with tragedy." NY Post.
CAST LIST
Truvy- Missy Madzek
Annelle- Mimi Zschack
Ouiser- Staci Glazier
Shelby- Gabrielle Christopher
M'lynn- Mia Cavanaugh
Clairee- Marianne Hebenstreit
This production is made possible in collaboration with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
440 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10016
Tel. 212-683-8960
Fax 212-213-1539
www.dramatists.com
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LocationLyric Hall Theater (View)
827 Whalley Ave
New Haven, CT 06515
United States
Categories
| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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