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 BUY TICKETS Special Mothers Day Package: $25 Lyric Hall Performance Only: $15 Advance / $20 Door What’s included? • 12 noon: Full Brunch and drag show at 168 York St Cafe Starring camp queen Dandy Lions and CT premier live-singing Barbra Streisand impersonator Barbra Joan Streetsand (The Brunch and drag show prior to to the showing of The Production is its own entity and in no way a part of the Licensed stage production being performed. It is a themed Mothers Day Brunch, to get everyone in the southern family spirit before the show. ) • 2 pm: Lyric Hall Ticket to the 2 pm performance of The Production. About the show: 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. 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. A first play which met with immediate critical and popular acceptance in its premier production by New York’s WPA Theatre. Concerned with a group of gossipy southern ladies in a small-town beauty parlor, the play is alternately hilarious and touching and, in the end, deeply revealing of the strength and purposefulness which underlies the antic banter of its characters. “Harling has given his women sharp, funny dialogue play builds to a conclusion that is deeply moving.” NY Daily News. “a skillfully crafted, lovingly evoked picture of eccentricity in the small-town SouthRobert Harling is a new voice in the theatre and the qualities of STEEL MAGNOLIAS suggest he may be an important one.” Drama-Logue. “suffused with humor and tinged with tragedy.” NY Post. This production is made possible in collaboration with Dramatists Play Service, Inc. 440 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016 Tel. 212-683-8960; Fax 212-213-1539; www.dramatists.com