'Steel Magnolias' Opens at Phoenix Stage Company

Truvy’s Salon is open for business! Come on down to Phoenix Stage Company for STEEL MAGNOLIAS by Robert Harling On Stage Now through May 11, 2019

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 their underlying strength.

THE CAST
Truby Jones: CHRISSY FLYNN
Annelle Dupuy-Desoto: TERESA ALEXANDRU
Clairee Belcher: LYDIA BABBIT
Shelby Eatenton-Latcherie: MEGHAN RICKARD
M'Lynn Eatenton: TORI RICHNAVSKY
Ouiser Boudreaux: MONICA O'BrienDirector - DONNA G. STORMS
Stage Manager - ED BASSETT