STEEL MAGNOLIAS
By Robert Harling
Directed by Craig Nolan Highley

Other performances of "Steel Magnolias" include:

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

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.

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