Steel Magnolias – Staged Reading – September 25

Marion Carnegie Library

and Marion Cultural and Civic Center Present

Steel Magnolias

A Staged Reading

September 25

7pm

Free Admission

In Honor of “Dolly Day” on 9/25 – Marion Carnegie Library in partnership with the Marion Cultural and Civic Center  presents a staged reading of Steel Magnolias at 7pm.  This event is free admission, but donations accepted toward Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. Every Dollar raised will go toward Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library through Read SI. 

All the ladies who are “anybody” in Chinquapin, Louisiana come to Truvy’s beauty salon 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 shampoo and free advice to the town’s rich curmudgeon, Ouiser, 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 several acerbic verbal collisions, the comedy moves toward tragedy when, in the second act, the spunky Shelby risks her life to go through with a dangerous pregnancy. Confronted with the harshness of mortality, the others draw together to find strength – and love – in the wake of tragedy.

Steel Magnolias is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Dramatists Play Service.