Audition for Steel Magnolias February 6 & 7
The cast calls for six women between the ages of 20 and 85. Auditions will include cold readings from the script and will be held on Monday and Tuesday, February 6 and 7, at 6:30 p.m. at Prairie Players Civic Theatre, 160 South Seminary Street, Galesburg. Perusal scripts are available by contacting the director, Anne Carman-Hendel. Those auditioning are asked to please bring proof of vaccination for COVID-19. Performance dates are March 24 through April 2.
Written by Robert Harling, Steel Magnolias 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 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.
Steel Magnolias is produced by special arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY of Woodstock, Illinois.
The cast calls for six women between the ages of 20 and 85. Auditions will include cold readings from the script and will be held on Monday and Tuesday, February 6 and 7, at 6:30 p.m. at Prairie Players Civic Theatre, 160 South Seminary Street, Galesburg. Perusal scripts are available by contacting the director, Anne Carman-Hendel. Those auditioning are asked to please bring proof of vaccination for COVID-19. Performance dates are March 24 through April 2.
Written by Robert Harling, Steel Magnolias 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 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.
Steel Magnolias is produced by special arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY of Woodstock, Illinois.