Steel Magnolias at Crown Uptwon Dinner Theatre

Steel Magnolias is a comedy–drama play about the bond among a group of Southern women in northwest Louisiana. It is written by Robert Harling, based on his experience with the death of his sister. The title suggests the "female characters are as delicate as magnolias but as tough as steel". The action is set in Truvy's beauty salon where all the ladies who are "anybody" come to have their hair done. This play is filled with hilarious repartee and humorously revealing verbal collisions until 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.