SLT to hold auditions for Steel Magnolias

August 15, 2024

Shreveport Little Theatre will hold auditions for its 103rd Season production of Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling on August 17, 2024. Cherrie Sciro is set to direct the production.

Sciro is the Coordinator of Theatre and Professor at Louisiana Tech University. Ms. Sciro is also known nationally for her Broadway credits which include Production Coordinator of the Tony Award-winning productions of Sir Cameron Mackintosh’s Cats, Les Misérables, Phantom of the Opera, and Miss Saigon, as well as Broadway Stage Manager for Song and Dance, Les Misérables, Phantom of the Opera, and Doin’ What Comes Natur’lly, an All-Star Tribute to Ethel Merman, featuring Lainie Kazan, Patti LuPone, Andrea Martin, Elaine Stritch and Bette Midler.

Stepping out of the theatre, Ms. Sciro served as the Production Manager for the 1999 Hard Rock Rockfest in Atlanta, and the Stage Manager for the 2001 New Year’s Eve in Times Square in New York City. She was also Road Manager for Patti LuPone and Dixie Carter.

Her international credits include the London, England productions of Les Misérables, Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon, Follies, and Sunset Boulevard. Sciro also served as the Production Manager for the Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain and Atlanta, Georgia.

Her national credits include producing the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival National Summer Theatre Festival. She also was the Production Stage Manager for the Kennedy Center’s Dance Festival. Ms. Sciro was honored by being named a Distinguished Alumni of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Her most treasured directing experience was for Louisiana Tech’s production of Six Women with Brain Death or Expiring Minds Want to Know. The production garnered twenty-one total awards both nationally, regionally, and statewide, including the Richard A. Weaver Best Production Award at the John F. Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. Other directorial credits include W;t, Parallel Lives, and Mamma Mia! to name a few.  

Auditions will be held at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, August 17, 2024, with callbacks Sunday August 18 at 2:00 p.m., at Shreveport Little Theatre. Rehearsals will be held Thursdays – Mondays from 6:30 – 9:00 pm on weeknights (Thursdays, Friday, and Mondays) and afternoons on Saturdays and Sundays.

Those interested in auditioning should email [email protected] to obtain the audition materials. Rehearsals begin September 9, 2024 with opening night set for October 25, 2024.  The show will run two consecutive weekends. Please bring all potential conflicts to auditions.  

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 ole boy.”