July 12, 13, 16, 19, and 20 at 7:30 pm
July 21 at 3 pm.

Tickets: $16 ($11 on “Industry Night”, July 16)
For Tickets call the Bard's Town: (502) 749-5245 or go online at thebardstown.com

Wayward Actors Company
Presents

STEEL MAGNOLIAS
By Robert Harling
Directed by Craig Nolan Highley

For our first show at the Bard’s Town, Wayward would like to welcome you to 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 in the second act. 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.

Featuring a stellar cast:

Kathy Todd Chaney as M'Lynn Eatonton
Katie Hay as Annelle Dupuy DeSoto
Janet Morris as Claree Belcher
Ashley Raymer-Brown as Shelby Eatonton Latcherie
Jennifer Starr Tennant as Truvy Jones
Janice Walter as Ouiser Boudreaux