![]() The first thing to take in about the production of Steel Magnolias at Music Theater of Connecticut is how Jessie Lizotte’s set design has opened up the playing space, creating a beauty salon with several work areas, a reception desk, a waiting area, a hair dryer, and two doors, one inner and one to the outside. Review of Steel Magnolias, Music Theatre of Connecticut At this point, Sylvia does sound like a young woman led on by a philandering married man’s promises of a permanent relationship, but that easy identification doesn’t undermine the feeling of actual regret, which Holland depicts well. In Act Two she devises a plan that should spell the end of the spell, and we face an effectively emotional farewell. Eventually, Kate seems to see this and grudgingly allows him to have some quality time with the dog she wants him to give away. When she curses out a cat, she’s foul-mouthed but only then, and it’s hilarious.Īnd that’s important because Greg is a rather buttoned-up guy and so Sylvia may well be his perfect pet. Sylvia, even when in heat, is matter-of-fact and forthright. And that’s helped by Fitzgerald’s refusal to play Sylvia as, well, kittenish. Schilling and Holland play it mild, at every point letting us off the hook of having to view Sylvia sexually. As Tom, he’s a buddy-buddy bench-warmer at Dog Hill (a park where city-folk can let their canines cavort) with a male dog of his own, and the eventual coupling of Sylvia and Bowser, off-stage, might illicit a variety of comic reactions. ![]() One-Phyllis-is a tony lady friend of Kate’s, played for laughs as a not so surreptitious tippler another-Leslie-is a counselor of fluid gender who seems to suspect the worst of Greg’s urges for Sylvia and recommends that Kate work up the full revenge-fury of a wronged wife. Connors draws upon the comic abilities of MTC regular Jim Schilling to create three different characters who intervene in the hi-jinx.
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