This is a production of the Newtown Arts Company
Questions? Call the Newtown Arts Company at 215-860-7058 or email tickets@newtownartscompany.com
PURCHASE TICKETS
Call 1-800-838-3006
Purchase at the box office one hour before curtain
PERFORMANCES
Friday, June 17: 7:30 PM
Saturday, June 18: 7:30 PM
Thursday, June 23: 7:30 PM
Friday, June 24: 7:30 PM
Saturday, June 25: 7:30 PM
Sunday, June 26: 2:00 PM
DETAILS
Tickets are $24 for main floor, $21 for balcony (plus $2 service fee).
Tickets are available through the Newtown Arts Company’s website.
Reserved tickets can also be purchased at the box office one hour before the show.
The box office opens one hour before curtain. House opens thirty minutes before curtain.
Newtown Theatre members get a free popcorn at Newtown Arts Company shows. Please be prepared to show your Newtown Theatre membership card.
Newtown Arts Company shows feature live music.
Questions? Contact the Newtown Arts Company at tickets@newtownartscompany.com or call 215-860-7058.
Synopsis
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.