Golden Globe and Grammy Award winner and Academy Award nominee Queen Latifah is staring in and executive producing the Lifetime Original Movie Event, Steel Magnolias, a television adaptation of the iconic play and 1989 film of the same name, reuniting her with her producing duo Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, from the Oscar and Golden Globe winning Chicago and Hairspray.
The all-star cast includes Alfre Woodard, Phylicia Rashad, Jill Scott, Adepero Oduye and Condola Rashad, Phylicia’s daughter.
Kenny Leon, Tony Award-winning revival of A Raisin in the Sun in 2004 starring Sean P. Diddy Combs, Phylicia Rashad and Audra McDonald, directs.
The story chronicles the lives and friendship of six women in Louisiana. Supporting each other through their triumphs and tragedies, they congregate at Truvy’s beauty shop to ponder the mysteries of life and death, husbands and children – and hair and nails – all the important topics that bring women together.
Premieres October 7 at 9pm ET on Lifetime.
(L to R) Queen Latifah (MLynn) Condola Rashad (Shelby) Phylicia Rashad (Clariee) Adepero Oduye (Annelle) and Jill Scott (Truvy).