Six remarkable actors play six strong characters in SLO Rep’s current production of “Steel Magnolias,” the 1987 play by Robert Harling that was reworked into a 1989 film starring six big-box-office names (re-made in 2012 with another six big-box-office names, if you’re interested). Save yourself the streaming fees, though . . .
So . . . you might be a little confused when the curtain rises on The Great American Melodrama’s latest offering in Oceano: “Butch Cassidy and the Sunburnt Kid.” That’s because, in true Melodrama fashion, almost everyone onstage throughout the production fumbles with Butch’s friend’s name, never getting to Sunburnt, let alone Sundance.