Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling is a tenderhearted favorite running November 9 – December 5, 2021, in the Quadracci Powerhouse. The cast features Janet Ulrich Brooks (Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Goodman Theatre) as M’Lynn, Phoebe González (Twelfth Night, Book of Will at APT) as Shelby, Rebecca Hirota (Junk, Jane Eyre at Milwaukee Rep) as Truvy, Maeve Moynihan (Guess Who’s Coming…Dinner, The Guthrie) as Annelle, Meg Thalken (Domesticated, Steppenwolf) as Ouiser and Tami Workentin (A Christmas Carol, Always…Patsy Cline, Good People Milwaukee Rep) as Clairee.
Steel Magnolias is directed by Artistic Producer Laura Braza (Songs for Nobodies, Milwaukee Rep), with set design by Collette Pollard (Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, Milwaukee Rep), costume design by Samantha C. Jones (School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, Goodman Theatre), lighting design by Noele Stollmack (The Chinese Lady, Milwaukee Rep), sound design by Pornchanok Kanchanabanca (The Nerd, The Niceties at Milwaukee Rep), with dialect coach Jill Walmsley Zager and stage manager Tara Kelly.
Infused with heart and humor, Steel Magnolias is a hilarious story of love, loss, and enduring friendship. In Chinquapin, Louisiana everybody who is anybody gets their hair done at Truvy’s beauty shop—where the women are all sass and brass. Through clouds of hairspray and over the buzz of blow dryers, six southern spitfires gather each week to gossip and support each other through thick and thin. But those bonds are tested when the ladies face a life-changing event.