April 26-28, 2000
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Arts & Entertainment Center, Red Bay, AL
The action 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, in the second act, the spunky Shelby (who is a diabetic) risks pregnancy and forfeits her life.
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