Steel Magnolias Auditions

March 14, 2023

The Fairfax Community Theatre Company is excited to announce
auditions for our Spring production of “Steel Magnolias” by Robert
Harling.

March 15 and 16, 2023 starting at 6:30 pm at the Reb Brick Meeting House in Westford, Vermont.

Production dates are May 18 – 21, 2023 at the Red Brick Meeting House.

The cast consists of 6 women between the ages of 20 to late 60s. Auditions will will readings from the play.

Director: Margie Cain
Stage Manager: Catie Smith
Props Mistress: Karen Stinehour
Producer: Tim Stetson
Sound Design: Buddy Meilleur

A description of the play from Dramatist Play Service: “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.”

For more information please contact us here or by email at info@fctcvt.org