SURFSIDE PLAYERS Present STEEL MAGNOLIAS, Opening October 23

SURFSIDE PLAYERS of Cocoa Beachpresent STEEL MAGNOLIAS by Robert Harling, October 23 - November 8, 2015, Fridays & Saturdays 8:00pm, Sundays 2:00pm Directed by Janet Rubin, Presented by Special Arrangement with Dramatists Play Service.

Caution: Contains brief PG-rated profanity. Tickets $22 adult, $20 senior or active military, $17 studentCall (321) 783-3127 or visit www.surfsideplayers.com, Highway A1A to South Fifth Street, Cocoa Beach.

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 (Marian Storvik) (who is not sure whether or not she is still married), the outspoken, wise-cracking Truvy (Tina Coppock) dispenses shampoos and free advice to the town's rich curmudgeon, Ouiser (Dee Quinn) ("I'm not crazy, I've just been in a bad mood for forty years"); an eccentric millionaire, Miss Clairee (Pam Quenzler), who has a raging sweet tooth; and the local social leader, M'Lynn (Jeanine Henry), whose daughter Shelby (Becky Behl-Hill) 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 Shelby, who is a diabetic, tries to get pregnant despite the risk to her health. 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.