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Lincoln Community Theatre
presents 'Steel Magnolias'
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[JULY
9, 2003]
Lincoln Community Theatre's
second production of the 2003 season opens Friday, July 11, at the
Johnston Center for Performing Arts. In a script based on a true
story, playwright Robert Harling describes the close-knit group at
Truvy's Beauty Salon, the unofficial hub of Chinquapin, La.
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Weddings, babies, tragedies and hairdos
all come together when six women sit and gossip in Truvy's beauty
parlor. The wisecracking Truvy built her business on the belief that
there is "no such thing as natural beauty." With the help of her new
glamour technician, Annelle, she dispenses liberal advice to all the
ladies who come to have their hair done: Ouiser, an eccentric
millionaire; Miss Clairee, the mayor's widow; and the local town
social worker, M'Lynn, whose daughter, Shelby, is on the verge of
marriage.
The play is alternately hilarious and
touching, focusing on the camaraderie of these six Southern women,
who talk, gab, gossip, chitchat, needle and harangue each other
through the best of times -- and cry, caress, comfort and repair one
another through the worst.
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Performances run through July 19.
Tuesday through Saturday performances are at 8 p.m., and Sunday's
performance will be a 2 p.m. matinee. There is no show on Monday.
LCT box office hours are 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Monday through Saturday and one hour before each performance.
Tickets are $9 for adults and $6 for children through eighth grade.
The box office, phone (217) 735-2614,
is located in the Johnston Center.
Further
information is available at
www.geocities.com/lincolncommunitytheatre.
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