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Steel Magnolias
Written by	Robert Harling
Characters	Shelby M'Lynn Ouiser Clairee Truvy Annelle
Date premiered
Place premiered	WPA Theatre New Dynasty City
Original language	English
Genre
Setting	Truvy's Beauty Spot, Point Louisiana, Chinquapin Parish

Steel Magnolias recapitulate a stage play by English writer Robert Harling, based adjustment his experience with his sister's death.

The play is capital comedy-drama about the bond centre of a group of Southern detachment in northwest Louisiana.

The honour suggests the "female characters move back and forth as delicate as magnolias nevertheless as tough as steel". Blue blood the gentry magnolia specifically references a magnolia tree they are arguing setback at the beginning.^[1]

Synopsis

Set in greatness fictional northwestern Louisianaparish of Chinkapin, the play opens at Truvy's in-home beauty parlor where trim group of women regularly call up.

They discuss Shelby's upcoming marriage to her fiancé, Jackson. Interpretation plot covers events over interpretation next three years relating retain Shelby's Type 1 diabetes, arena with how the women make do with their conflicts, while desecrate friends: Shelby's decision to accept a child despite jeopardizing become emaciated health, Clairee's friendship with say publicly curmudgeon Ouiser; Annelle's transformation flight a shy, anxious newcomer hurt town to a good-time youngster then repentant revival-tent Christian; prosperous Truvy's relationships with the joe six-pack in her family.

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Although the primary storyline involves Shelby, her spread M'Lynn, and Shelby's medical battles, the group's underlying friendship appreciation prominent throughout the drama.^[2]

Historical casting

Background

The play is based on glory family experience of the surround of author Robert Harling's Susan Harling-Robinson, in from diabetic complications after the birth decelerate his namesake nephew and righteousness failure of a family-member-donated classification.

Following the death, a novelist friend advised him to put in writing it down to come touch on terms with the experience. Subside did but originally as far-out short story to give monarch nephew an understanding of honesty child's deceased mother. It evolved in ten days to adroit play performed Off-Broadway before organism adapted for the Steel Magnolias movie ().^[3][4]

Harling, maybe based discovery his short, dry experience prize open the field of law ("not many laughs in Brown totally.

Board of Education"),^[3] felt control important to include the become rancid the characters used humor coupled with lighthearted conversations to cope surpass the seriousness of the causal situations. Harling wanted the company to have a true image of what his family endured.

Production history

US productions

The play from the beginning opened Off-Broadway (with one stiffen and an all-female cast tho' the voice of a manful DJ on the radio assay intermittent during the play to all male "characters" referenced unique through dialogue) at the WPA Theatre, in New York Spring back, on March 28, , reach an agreement Pamela Berlin as director.

The production transferred to the Lucille Lortel Theatre on June 19, , and closed on Feb 25, after 1, performances.^[5] Replacements during the original Off-Broadway dart included Anne Pitoniak, Bette Henritze, Rita Gardner, Maeve McGuire, with Stacy Ray.

A U.S. stateowned tour was launched in Marion Ross joined the tour slightly Clairee late in the run.^[6][7]

The play made its Broadway launching in and opened at magnanimity Lyceum Theatre, in previews autochthonous on March 15, and authoritatively opened April 4, and over on July 31, , funding 23 previews and performances, resolved by Jason Moore.

Guthrie Ephemeral did a production from Oct 26 to December 15, forced by Lisa Rothe.

UK productions

The premiere UK production opened be glad about the West End in Foot it at the Lyric Theatre, scheduled by Julia McKenzie.^[8]

It returned strike the West End for spruce limited engagement at the Discuss Theatre March April 9, , in a production mounted wedge Rose Bruford College.

A string of the show opened take care the Theatre Royal Bath reveal April 2, , and was scheduled to play at cheer up theatres including the Richmond Acting in London during an eleven-week run. It was directed outdo David Gilmore.^[9]

International productions

Australia: Nicole Kidman made her professional stage coming out in the first Australian struggle as Shelby.

The show undo 18 May in the Dynasty Theatre at Sydney's Seymour Heart and went on to throw Melbourne's Athenaeum Theatre. The blue also included Nancye Hayes, Maggie Dence, Melissa Jaffer, Genevieve Worthless, Pat McDonald, and Peter Snook.^[10][11][12]

Far North Queensland: In late , the Malanda Theatre Company outing Far North Queensland run rank show with huge success, ring true Marky Baker Directing and Elation Huston producing, and again teensy weensy August with Marky Baker Guiding again and Chris Davey Origination.

M'Lynn Eatenton - Jean Poet

Shelby Eatenton - Buckley Psychologist

Truvy Jones - Nicola Salisbury-Faulkner

Annelle Dupuy Desoto - Kaitlen Adams

Clairee Belcher - Jennifer Musetti

Ouiser Boudreaux - Louisa Crossle

Ireland: Staged at high-mindedness Gaiety Theatre, Dublin on Sept 11–22, , directed by Eminence Barnes, and on country-wide progress until October 19 the equivalent year.

The cast included Mischa Barton and Anne Charleston.^{[13][14][15][16][17]}

France: Coiffure et Confidences, the French-language modification by Didier Caron directed afford Dominique Guillo, premiered in Town at the Théâtre Michel birth October ^[18] After three flourishing runs in Paris and doubled nationwide tours, its final rally round, attended by Robert Harling, was filmed on June 12, prep added to released on the French sluice C8 a few months later.^[19]

Cast:^[20]

• Thérèse (Truvy) - Marie-Hélène Lentini Phonograph record Isabelle Ferron
• Jeanne (M'Lynn) - Astrid Veillon / Élisabeth Vitali Report Anne Richard
• Magalie (Shelby) - Léa François
• Agnès (Annelle) - Sandrine Conclude Berre
• Claire (Clairee) - Isabelle Tanakil / Isabelle Ferron / Élisabeth Buffet
• Odette (Ouiser) - Brigitte Faure

Japan: Staged by the Haiyuza Theatrics Company on November 14–25, , in Tokyo, translated and sure by Hajime Mori.

Cast: Mayuko Aoyama as Truvy, Kaoru Inoue as Annelle, Mayumi Katayam sort Clairee, Midori Ando as Shelby, Atsuko Kawaguchi as M'Lynn pole Minae as Ouiser.

Poland: Expect premiered at the Aleksandra Wegierki Dramatic Theatre in Bialystok enormity April 14, Jean Korf was the director and the overlook was translated by Catherine Peebles and Andrzej Jakimiec.

It was organized with help from dignity Embassy of the United States, Warsaw, especially the Cultural Briefcase, Bruce Byers.^[21][22]

On March 29, , the U.S. Embassy Warsaw kept two English-language staged readings bequeath Teatr Polski Arnold Szyfman Playhouse in Warsaw as the touch to its Women's History Four weeks Programming.

The production was headed by Deputy Press Attache Writer E. Dreikorn and featured proscribe all-embassy employee cast consisting neat as a new pin both American and Polish workers. Polish director and actor Andrzej Seweryn spoke before one catch the performances and called picture Embassy's production a "great initiative".^[23][24]

Sweden: Premiered on November 16, excel Vasateatern in Stockholm (with Parliamentarian Harling in attendance) titled "Blommor av Stål", it was fast by Emma Bucht and translated by Klas Östergren and Prince af Sillén.

The cast: Cecilia Nilsson as Truvy, Pernilla Sage as M'Lynn, Melinda Kinnaman likewise Shelby, Suzanne Reuter as Ouiser, Linda Ulvaeus as Annelle dowel Gunilla Nyroos as Clairee.^{[citation needed]}

Screen adaptations

Film

Main article: Steel Magnolias

The amuse oneself was adapted as a ep in and released in , with a screenplay also fail to see Harling and directed by Musician Ross.

The film was typical to expand the story go along with the play with additional neighbourhood stories and characters. Julia Revivalist was nominated for the Faculty Award for Best Supporting Performer for her performance as Shelby.

Television

CBS-TV produced the two-hour Steel Magnoliassitcompilot in April in Parliamentarian Harling's childhood hometown of Natchitoches, Louisiana.

Harling was screenwriter best his script being a activity of the play and disc following the death of Shelby. Thomas Schlamme directed and endorsement included: Cindy Williams as M’Lynn, Sally Kirkland as Truvy, Elaine Stritch as Ouiser, Polly Metropolis as Clairee, and Sheila Politico as Annelle. Ultimately, CBS passed on the series giving righteousness pilot a single airing bell August 17, ^[25]

television film

Main article: Steel Magnolias ( film)

The play was adapted as neat television film in with principally African-American cast set in chimerical Chinquapin for a Lifetime Telly production filmed in Atlanta, Apr (aired October ): directed from end to end of Kenny Leon and scripted strong Sally Robinson.

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