The Women: Live on Stage at the Chattanooga Theatre Centre

The Women, a the classic Broadway comedy by Clare Booth Luce comes to the CTC MainStage through May 29th.

George Cukor's 1939 film version of the play featured Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell in a hilarious catfight that made "jungle red" nail polish synonymous with sharp-clawed back stabbing. This brilliant comedy has assumed the status of a modern classic.

The playwright carries us through a number of varied scenes and shows us not only a somewhat unflattering picture of womanhood, but digging under the surface, reveals a human understanding for, and sympathy with, some of its outstanding figures. The plot involves the efforts of a group of women to play their respective roles in an artificial society that consists of vain show, comedy, tragedy, hope and disappointment.

The Women features 44 characters played by 19 Actors, all of them female. While men frequently are the subject of their lively discussions and play an important role in the action on stage, they are never seen.

The Women is directed by Brother Ron Fender, a 12-year, 10-play veteran of your CTC, who predicts audiences will enjoy this "old-fashioned play with modern style. It's an attractive comedy with great slapstick humor. Even the villains are very endearing. If you like old movies and comedies, you'll love The Women."

The play features Brenda Hodges Binder, Elaine Bradway, Rebecca Collins, Ashely Dempsey. Karen Faye, Nancy Hammons, Eve Hildebrandt, Judy LaMance, Wanda Lee, Erin McKown, Amanda Medlin, Stefanie Oppenheimer, Whitney Standifer, Anne Swedberg, Heather Thompson, Rhea Thurman, Emma Veys, Sophie Veys, and May Wood.

Stage Manager is Stacy Helton with assistance from Heidi Bradway.

For a 1973 production, playwright Luce re-set this play in the early 1960s and we're setting our production there with costumes designed by Scott Dunlap and set design by George Quick. The Women is great fun, you'll love it!

Real-Time Captioning for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing - Thurs 5.19.11 - 7:00pm Curtain. Sponsored by Barnett & Company and the Chattanooga Chapter of the Hearing Loss Association of America ($10 to $20)

Talk-Back following the performance - Fri 5.20.11 - 8:00pm Curtain ($25)

Girls Night Out - Fri 5.27.11 - 8:00pm Curtain ($25)Pre-Show reception featuring adult beverages and light hors d'oeurves. Sponsored by Brewer Media

Fridays/Saturdays @ 8:00pm

Sundays @ 2:30pm

Thursdays @ 7:00pm

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