Meet Sheila McCarthy, Director of Steel Magnolias | Drayton Entertainment 2024
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Sheila McCarthy: Hi, my name is Sheila McCarthy, and I'm directing Steel Magnolias. 
The overall themes of Steel Magnolias is right in the title. It's, you know, six women who might be thought of as magnolias, but they're made of steel. How strong we need to be in our lives, how important friendship is, how important talking and sharing and revealing secrets.
In the world of a beauty salon, everything is spoken there's just something very open and freeing about being under those hair dryers, getting your hair curled, that allows a certain openness that I think hasn't really changed from the'80s until 2024. And I think we have to fight against social media, and just connecting with people on Instagram, and thinking that that is the connection. It's not. It's being in the same room, it's seeing, you know, eye to eye, and it's sharing all those times together. 
You know, it's funny. I when I'm with my female friends and then a man comes in the room, or a husband comes in the room, or a brother, or partner, whatever, it changes, so I could never reveal what we're really talking about. We're not always talking about them!
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I just really want our audiences to come and sit back and enjoy the foibles, and the insecurities, and the successes, and the comedy, and the drama, and the tears. I want audiences to see themselves on stage, recognize their own families, have a good old laugh and a good old cry, and talk about it on the way home.	ON SCREEN: 
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