Auditions

Masterworx Theater Presents
Steel Magnolias
Audition Notice

Masterworx Theater is seeking six women (ages 19-60) to bring the heart, humor, and strength of Steel Magnolias to life.

Auditions:

April 27 (with possible callbacks on April 28) Academy Center of the Arts Music Hall 722 Commerce Street

Sign up for an audition slot here: AUDITION SCHEDULE

What to Bring:

A headshot and résumé (if you have one)
A completed audition form (extras will be available)
A playful spirit and a good attitude—because great theater starts with great energy

What to Expect:

Cold readings from the script (sides provided)
No need to prepare a monologue
Please do not bring an affected Southern accent—we want to hear your natural voice

Performance Dates: July 11-13 at the Academy Center of the Arts Warehouse Theater

Come be part of this heartfelt, hilarious, and beautifully moving show. We can’t wait to meet you!

Characters:

Truvy Jones
40-year-old owner of a small-town beauty shop. She knows everyone’s business and shares it with anyone who will listen. Southern Belle. She always has advice for you, and they often come in the form of country sayings.

M’Lynn Eatenton
M’Lynn: 50-year-old mother of Shelby. She is over-protective at times and finds the need to have a firm grasp on the world at all times. She is a busy woman who worries too much for her age.

Annelle Dupuy-Desoto
(19-25) very shy twenty-year-old hair-dresser. She goes from a very soft-spoken person to a Bible-loving Christian with her heart on her sleeve.

Shelby Eatenton-Latcherie
Roughly 25-year-old diabetic young lady. Prettiest girl in town and loved by all. She has a weird relationship with her mother, and often rebels just for the sake of rebellion.

Clairee Belcher
60-year-old widow of the former mayor of Chinquapin. She is wealthy and also knows everyone’s business. She is the sarcastic member of the group. She loves to laugh and poke fun at the little things that others cry over. She is very close with Ouiser.

Ouiser Bourdeau (pronounced Weezer)
She is the same age as Clairee. She is a wealthy old bitty. She is a loveably miserable lady, though. Her unique personality and sense of humor is a great relief in the serious scenes. She is very close to Clairee.

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 ale 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.