 Staff members include Renae Simons, Erin Lynds, Karen Hiller, Suzi Williams, Mary Rinehart, and Kellye Nye with faculty member Cliff Mabry directing.
The play by Robert Harling will be performed for the general public Nov. 13 and 15 at 7 pm and Nov. 16 at 2 pm. Tickets are $10 for the general public and $5 for staff, students and faculty members of Friendswood ISD.
The play revolves around Truvy's Beauty Parlor in a small parish in modern-day Louisiana, Steel Magnolias is the story of a close-knit circle of friends whose lives come together there.
As the picture opens, the audience finds Drum Eatenton shooting birds in the trees of his back yard in preparation for his daughter's wedding reception that afternoon. Shortly thereafter, M'Lynn and Shelby (Drum's wife and daughter) depart for Truvy's to get their hair done for the wedding. "Just the sweetest thing," Annelle Depuy Desoto (who may or may not be married because her marriage may not be legal) is introduced to Truvy's customers as her new "glamour technician."
While in the chairs, the sour-tempered Ouiser Boudreaux shows up and entertains the assemblage with her barbs. It seems that the only one of the group who truly understands Ouiser is Clairee who is recently widowed and looking for a diversion. As she says, later in the picture, "If you can't find anything good to say about anybody, come sit by me."
Filled with humor and heartbreak, these Steel Magnolias make viewers laugh and cry as the realities of their lives in tiny Chiquapin Parish unfolds. |
