Jimmy Dean - Preview

come back to the 5 & dime, jimmy dean, jimmy dean

a comedy-drama by Ed Graczyk.

Directed by Paul Johnson.

Friday, 16th - Saturday, 24nd May

A change to May’s production personnel means that Paul Johnson will now be directing Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean for us.

If you were lucky enough to get early tickets for 2008’s curtain-raiser, the riotous Noises Off - before it sold out - then you will already know that ‘Jimmy Dean’ is in very safe hands and you’ll be looking forward to this comedy-drama with bated breath.

Set in a 5 & Dime store in sun-baked McCarthy, Texas, preparations are well underway for the twentieth anniversary reunion of the ‘Disciples of James Dean’ ...twenty years to the day since their idol’s untimely death.

Mona, the ‘Disciples’ leader, still works in the store, still worships Dean and still lives her life around her memories of working as an ‘extra’ on the set of ‘Giant’ in the nearby town of Marfa (the movie James Dean made with Elizabeth Taylor) ...Mona’s son, Jimmy Dean, was born exactly nine months later! James Dean’s son and heir?

Sissy, owner of the most popular ‘pair’ in town, also still works in McCarthy and, through flash-backs, we see the girls, together with their best friend, Joe, as they were at the height of the Disciples’ fever-pitch excitement twenty years earlier.

Mona has organised the reunion, but will the disciples all turn up? and will they even still recognise each other?

Prepare to laugh and cry as secrets are uncovered and truths revealed.

Also starring Sandy Dennis, Karen Black and Kathy Bates, this was the play that gave ‘Cher’ her big acting break in 1982, appearing first on Broadway (directed by Robert Altman) and subsequently in the film version of the same year.

A brilliant and popular play that will certainly sell-out at BLT fast (Noises Off sold out before its opening night!), the only question is ...will you book quick enough to guarantee a seat? Why not simply order your tickets online here and now?



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