AtlantaTHE MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF THE ATLANTA MEMORIALArts ARTSCENTER JANUARY 1977 Alliance Theatre Presents the Biggest Names in Show Business Shaw, Albee, Ibsen, Shakespeare, Moliere YouCanlell AGood Ol’ Boy By What Keeps Him Company Used to be you could spot one a country mile away. Getting tougher all the time though. Because the good ol' boys ain't who they used to be. Exactly. Now you're just as likely to find 'em moving and shaking in the city as hunting and fishing in the country. They're run­ ning fast and working hard, trying to change the South. But still, beneath all that "WallStreet" outside, you'll find a little Main Street inside. Maybe that's why this New South everybody's talking about is turning out to be the real South. Because a good or boy has the sense to keep what's good, change what's not and the wisdom to know the difference. You can even see it in his whiskey. Rebel Yell, made and sold only below the Mason-Dixon line. Rebel Yell's whisper of wheat im­ parts a smooth, luxurious flavor tailored especially for the good ol' boy in each of us. Keep company with the Host Bourbon of the South. Ask for Rebel . ^oulheni’ ofour Qllash j Yell. And if you don't recognize any good ol' boys in the room, don't worry. They'll recognize you. $ I I i Rebel Yell The Good OF Boys Bourbon. REBEL YELL DISTILLERY • LOUISVILLE. KENTUCKY • 90 PROOF • KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY Of Special Interest AT THE CENTER nil________________________ ALLIANCE THEATRE This Season At the Alliance Our “biggest names in show business” span five centuries and three countries: Europe, England, and the United States. This season provides offerings of every dramatic mode and mood -from comedy to tragedy, from farce to nostalgia, from history to high melodrama. One might say that there is something for everyone, but we prefer to think that it is all for everyone, that every playgoer will laugh all the way through Scapino, shudder with ambivalence toward Hedda Gabler, delight in the witty perfection of Shaw, and be moved by the spectacle of Henry /Land the warmth of To Kill A Mockingbird. The theatre is the place we come to know to come to our collections life beyond our own experience. It is for this reason that Producing Director David of fashion for the Bishop and Artistic Director Fred Chappell attempt to include in the Alliance entire family, the home, Theatre’s season a variety of plays—not to please everyone—but to offer our gifts and antiques too. audiences a wide range of dramatic Do stay for luncheon experiences throughout the season. Opening with Scapino, the season or tea at our Bird Cage continues with Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, a new play Come Back to the 5 and Dime, restaurant, open every Jimmy Dean. Jimmy Dean by Ed Graczyk; shopping day. Lord & Taylor, George Bernard Shaw’s Misalliance', Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird', Phipps Plaza, Peachtree Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part I; and closes with Edward Albee’s modern masterpiece, Road between Wieuca Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Scapino! A Long Way off from Moliere and Lenox Roads. 266-0600 —our first production— by Frank Dunlop Monday through and Jim Dale is a hilarious update of Moliere’s classic comedy written in 1691, Saturday 10:00 a.m. to and originally entitled Les Fourberies de Scapin (The Rascalities of Scapin). The 6:00 p.m., Monday and contemporary version is truly “a long way from Moliere.” Frank Dunlop and Jim Thursday evenings until Dale transport Moliere’s wily servant from 9:00 p.m. _____________ the seventeenth century to the twentieth, 3 ■■■■ THE RETURN TO ELEGANCE. lieve the 1 . ' EANING In nn________________________ from France to Naples—and not a single laugh is lost along the way. Moliere had Sears actually borrowed Scapin from Italy and the Italian commedia dell ’arte, and it was the idea of English director Frank Dunlop to return the scamp to Italy as Scapino. a contemporary rogue and servant in a So many ways to waterfront cafe in Naples. The plot Shop at Sears remains the same, and it has never been funnier. There are two sets of lovers and and SAVE! two fathers. The lovers want to get married, and the fathers—as fathers 8 BIG STORES IN ATLANTA always are in comedy—are against it. open every night and Sunday afternoons Scapino is on the side of the lovers, naturally, but his first allegiance is to the 17 Appliance Catalog Stores side of fun, and that is what everyone has in all around the Atlanta area this play. We hope you enjoy Scapino! as much as we have enjoyed preparing it for 24 Hour Catalog Shopping you. Comedy originated as the mythos of by phone from home, call 892-4242 spring because life returns then and laughter is rejuvenating. It is even more Surplus and Bargain Stores rejuvenating in the middle of winter. If you with closeouts from catalog and stores leave the theatre complaining that you’ve laughed till your sides hurt, Scapino! will PLEASE SEE YOUR have succeeded. TELEPHONE DIRECTORY FOR MORE SPECIAL SERVICES INCLUDING Hedda Gabler, our second production, offers one of the stage’s most demanding SEARS CARPET CLEANING and coveted roles. Throughout this call 351-4082 century the passion and boredom mixed in the character of Hedda Gabler has SEARS DRAIN & SEWER SERVICE challenged the great actresses of Europe call 892-6565 and the United States. To recreate Ibsen’s enigmatic heroine, Alliance Theatre SEARS DRIVING SCHOOL presents Dana Ivey, an actress well- call 352-3400 remembered by Atlanta audiences for her FLOWERS BY SEARS moving portrayal last season of Annie call 325-0337 (Atlanta) Sullivan in The Miracle Worker. or 422-0656 (Marietta) Last year we presented a new play, The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White SEARS MEAT & FROZEN FOOD Magnolia, and it was a huge success. This call 325-5359 season we have another premiere, Ed SEARS RENT-A-CAR Graczyk’s Come Back to the 5 and Dime, call 261 -6700 (Buckhead) Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. The five and or 659-5010 (Downtown) dime is in McCarthy, Texas, not far from where James Dean’s last movie Giant was SEARS TERMITE & PEST CONTROL filmed. A group of women for whom the call 351-4082 memory of J immy Dean has become a life­ long obsession meets twenty years after the star’s death to perform their ritual of adoration in the H. L. Kressmont, a decaying dime store. Even with its somewhat gothic theme, Come Back to the 5 and Dime. Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean is 5 The Boehm Panda Cub is now available for private ownership. The first “Giant Panda Cub with Bamboo Shoots” by the Edward Marshall Boehm studios was presented by Mrs. Boehm to the Chinese Porcelain Factories of the People’s Republic of China, during her recent visit there. The charmingly lifelike porcelain sculpture is now available for possession by a few homes and museums in the United States. $400. To Love Is to Give, x Charge Accounts Invited Bailey Banks & Biddle World Renowned Jewelers Since 1832 181 Peachtree Street, N. E. • Atlanta Greenbriar Center • South DeKalb Mall Perimeter Mall ■ Northlake Mall Lenox Square nn________________________ a very funny play. Stories set in the South—no matter how serious the theme—seldom take place j.p Allen without humor. The central episode of To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Robinson’s trial, is anguishing. No one who read the novel, saw the film, or experiences the play can Atlanto fail to be enraged at the injustice of the Women's and children's lashions, verdict rendered against Tom Robinson cosmetics and gifts. and its tragic aftermath. And yet, what lingers with us after our anger has subsided is not that biting sense of man’s inhumanity to man, but the simple comic spirit of innocence which rises up and promises to renew the battle against prejudice, intolerance, and cruelty. It is not the chill of the sound of GUILTY! echoing through the Maycomb County Courthouse that we carry away from To Kill a Mockingbird, but an altogether different kind of chill that we feel when Scout Finch walks across her front porch to the shy figure huddled in the night shadows and says, “Hey, Boo.” So that’s a sampling of the season ahead. But it is only a sampling. This year our season is extended to seven plays, each one of which we think offers the finest in professional theatre. It is not too late to take advantage of our subscription rate saving and be sure of a seat for every play. If you bought a single ticket for Scapino!you can easily convert it to a season subscription and enjoy all seven great plays for the price of six. Just take your ticket stub to the box office during intermission, or save it and call 892-2414 tomorrow and say you have a single ticket ■■ to Scapino! and would like to convert it to the subscription package. We think we have an exciting season Ours exclusively, ahead. We hope you will be here for every play. I LOVE ATLANTA Truly a conversation piece! We can't ATLANTA CHILDREN'S THEATRE think of a nicer way for you to say, Atlanta Children’s Theatre presents the "I love Atlanta", in 14 kt. gold with rousing, riotous, slapstick musical comedy Punch and Judy January 5 through 15" chain. Designed exclusively for February 17.