Director Anthony Methvin avoids re-creating the better-known film version of the story
The biggest challenge of staging a play later made into a very successful film is that when the story ultimately makes its way back to the theater, audiences have built-in ideas about who should play the roles and how.
Methvin, Backyard’s cofounder and producing director, has cast six women actors who aren’t attempting to re-create the film’s unforgettable performances. Instead these actors have made the roles their own, and that’s a good thing. The film sometimes tipped into melodrama, scenery-chewing and dramatic eye rolls, but Methvin’s Backyard production aims for more authenticity and understatement.
Marci Anne Wuebben as M’Lynn and Liliana Talwatte as Shelby in Backyard Renaissance Theatre’s “Steel Magnolias.”Wendy Maples anchors the play with a warm and gentle performance as hairstylist Truvy, whose 1980s-era back-bedroom salon has been nicely designed and well-appointed by Tony Cucuzzella. The play opens on Shelby’s wedding day, when she and her mother, M’Lynn, have arrived at Truvy’s for hairdos.
And speaking of laughs, despite the play’s sad moments, it’s very funny, with so many great lines that several online articles can be found listing the script’s best one-liners. My favorite is Shelby’s declaration about pregnancy to her mother that she’d “rather have 30 minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special.”
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