'Dixie Swim Club' Full Of Southern Charm
Published: May 28th, 2010
By: Jeff Genung

'Dixie Swim Club' full of southern charm

Maybe I’ve spent far too many hours watching “Golden Girls” reruns on late-night TV, but there’s something vaguely comforting about the familiarity of a group of women sitting around talking about sex, booze, and more sex.

That’s probably why I felt right at home in The Earlville Opera House Wednesday night, watching a preview of this weekend’s Sherburne Music Theater Society production of “The Dixie Swim Club,” written by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten and directed by Rich Heim.

If you’ve ever seen the aforementioned “Golden Girls,” or even “Designing Women” or “Steel Magnolias” for that matter, you’re already familiar with the plot of “The Dixie Swim Club.” It centers around a group of five brash Southern women, who formed a bond as members of a college swim team and meet every year thereafter in August at an Outer Banks, North Carolina beach rental for a weekend catching up, laughing, drinking, and meddling in each other’s lives.

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