Robert Harling's play "Steel Magnolias" was written as a tribute to his sister, who died from complications due to diabetes. Following the lives of six women in a small Louisiana beauty salon, their friendship, loves and losses, it is humorous and heartbreaking. It was adapted into a very successful film starring in 1989 starring Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine, Julia Roberts, Dolly Parton and Olympia Dukakis.
LA Theatre Works presentation was recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater, UCLA in October of 2015.
Directed by Jessica Kubzansky
Shannon Holt as Ouiser
Jeanie Hackett as Clairee
Brittany Snow as Shelby
Frances Fisher as Truvy
Jocelyn Towne as Annelle
Amy Pietz as M'Lynn
