You know the story: A group of gossip-loving southern ladies in a small-town beauty parlor. It all moves toward tragedy when Shelby risks her life with pregnancy. The sudden realization of their mortality affects the others, but also draws on the underlying strength - and love - which shows the characters to be truly trouching, funny, and marvelously amiable company in good times and bad. See it at Tulsa Little Theater tonight. Directed by Joshua Branson Barker, performed by Encore! Theatre Arts.