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ATLANTA Artsmemorial ARTS CENTER JANUARY 1976 AtlantaTHE MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF THE ATLANTA MEMORIAL ARTS CENTER Arts JANUARY 1976 Of Special Interest AT THE CENTER im___________________ ALLIANCE THEATRE COMPANY Alliance Theatre Kicks Off Season with 'The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia' On January 15, the Alliance Theatre begins its 1976 season at the Atlanta Memorial Arts Center with a fantastically funny and completely new work—The Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia. The production is made possible through the American Play­ wrights Theatre, an organization that promotes the production of new plays by regional member theatres before the rights become tied up for years on Broadway. The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia has been scheduled to open on Broadway this spring and will be presented in at least fifteen theatres across the country this year. It has already played to Dallas audiences in addition to a tremendously acclaimed run at Washing­ ton D. C.’s Arena Stage. In White Magnolia, Preston Jones, a significant new voice in the American theatre, and the play’s author, looks at the raucous, discombobulated meeting of a fraternal lodge and its remaining seven members. The play, part of a trilogy about life and mores in a small Texas town, deals with these seven deadbeats as they try ineffectually to carry on a faded tradition of white sheets and blazing crosses (they found the KKK too liberal). Devoted to domino playing, drinking and reminiscing the “good of times” during their meetings, the fiction of a brotherhood is frittered f/ott r 6e.it fure away—the eventual break-up of the group is a moving experience. The characters are O a so well developed that one can imagine their lives extending beyond their shabby y aianwwL meeting room. Things may have been mis­ guided and silly in the lodge hall but that was better than empty, leaving a group of small people to face their small lives. The playwright has not created characters, but authentic people, laughable for all their Tiffany&Co. PHIPPS PLAZA faults and rich in their idiosyscrycies- the ATLANTA Life Insurance is the most personal product you'll ever buy ... make sure your agent is a professional who cares about you. Tom Flournoy,III,CLU 2 Peachtree St. Atlanta 18TH CENTURY STYLE DOUBLE BONNET SECRETARY faithfully reproduced by Henredon, where pride in one's work will never be a thing of the past. $1165. playgoer will find himself completely involved in their plight. Preston Jones is being heralded by critics as an important new spokesman in We bid you American theatre. What William Inge did for Kansas, and Thornton Wilder did for New Hampshire, Jones is doing for small­ town Texas. The meanness of the big city WELCOME! or the sweet-scented decadence of the Deep South have yet to infect Preston Jones’ We're so happy you've rural landscapes. In his early years, Jones kicked around the Lone Star State as a come to our collections worker for the highway department and a of beautiful clothes for the scale operator at cattle auctions before he joined the Dallas Theatre Center in 1962 as entire family, home fashions, an actor. Two seasons ago, when he was gifts and antiques too. put in charge of programming the Theatre Center’s experimental house, the play- Do stay for luncheon or tea wrighting urge struck. Mr. Jones says of at our Bird Cage restaurant, himself, “Well, I’ve always had a lot of open every shopping day. stories in may head, but never much time to put them down. I finally siad, ‘Gosh, I Lord & Taylor, Phipps Plaza might as well try my hand at a West Texas Peachtree Road between play’ ”—the result of which is the trilogy from which White Magnolia is taken. Wieuca and Lenox Roads The play will be directed by Fred 266-0600 Chappell, Artistic Director of the Alliance Theatre’s 1976 season, and will run Monday through Saturday through January 31. 10:00 a.m. to 600 p.m. In past seasons at the Alliance Theatre, Monday and Thursday Fred Chappell has directed such outstand­ ing productions as A Midsummer Night’s evenings until 900 p.m. Dream, The Crucible, The Boyfriend, Romeo and Juliet, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Oh, Coward!, Jacques Brel, and Tobacco Road. Mr. Chappell returns to the Alliance Theatre after opening Don Tucker’s new musical Same Painted Pony in New York. He recently completed his second highly successful summer season as Artistic Director of the Cortland Repertory Theatre in Cortland, New York. In addi­ tion to his work as director of various off- Broadway productions and other major theatre productions around the country, Mr. Chappell is an accomplished actor as well. He appeared on Broadway in Theatre Atlanta’s production of Red, White and Maddox; with Vincent Price in Oliver; with Ann Miller in Marne: and Bob Cummings and Mamie Van Doren in How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying. Mr. Chappell will direct the majority of the season with guest directors 18th (Century ‘Pegency chair with faux bamboo turnings from our 'Baker furniture collection. fA volume 400 page 'Baker Book, $15.00. 430 (^Merchandise etMart, Chicago 60654- ‘Distinguished manufacturer and distributor through your interior designer or furniture retailer. Showrooms in cAtlanta, Chicago, Cleveland, “Dallas, Qrand ‘papids, SHigh ‘Point, ^Houston, bos <5Angeles, efMiami, J\(ew york, ‘Philadelphia, San Francisco. to be announced. The Miracle Worker, the life story of Helen Keller, playing from Sears February 5 to February 21 will follow The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia. Other plays to be presented are To Be Young, Gifted and Black; The Skin So many ways to of Our Teeth; The Time of Your Life; and Shop at Sears The Tempest. Season subscriptions will be available at the Art Center Box Office and and SAVE! the Alliance Theatre business offices at 15 16th-Street. 7 BIG DEPT. STORES Subscription tickets will also be availabe open every night and Sunday afternoons on January 2 at various shopping malls throughout the city, as well as Peachtree 19 Appliance Catalog Stores Center, Central City Park, Underground all around the Atlanta area Atlanta, Colony Square, the new Buck­ head Park, and other locations in the 24 Hour Catalog Shopping Atlanta area. Theatre and motel marquees by phone from home, call 892-4242 in the city will be proclaiming this day as Alliance Theatre Day, and women Surplus, Bargain Stores representing the Theatre Guild will be with closeouts from catalog and stores manning information booths to aid Atlanta theatregoers and promote the Special Services Alliance Theatre bicentennial season of SEARS CARPET CLEANING plays. The Honorable Mayor Maynard call 351-4082 Jackson has officially declared January 2, 1976, Alliance Theatre Day in recognition SEARS DRAIN & SEWER SERVICE of the service theTheatre has rendered to call 875-6601 the city in past years. He hopes that support of the South’s leading quality thea­ SEARS DRIVING SCHOOL tre will grow still further in the future. To call 352-3400 top off January 2 as Alliance Theatre Day, FLOWERS BY SEARS a telethon will be held at Lenox Square call 325-0337 (Atlanta) with booths and displays to better acquaint or 422-0656 (Marietta) the Atlanta public with the 1976 Alliance Theatre’s Salute to America Season. Sea­ SEARS MEAT & FROZEN FOOD son ticket information will be available at call 325-5359 Lenox Square and elsewhere in the city on that date in addition to the Arts Center SEARS RENT-A-CAR Box Office and the Theatre itself. Call call 261-6700 (Buckhead) or 659-5010 (Downtown) 892-2797 for information. ATLANTA CHILDREN'S THEATRE SEARS TERMITE & PEST CONTROL call 351-4082 Androcles and the Lion, a bright fast- PLEASE SEE YOUR TELEPHONE DIRECTORY paced musical for the young, is the current FOR MANY MORE production of the Atlanta Children’s Theatre, running January 6 through February 18 on the Alliance Theatre stage of the Memorial Arts Center. Adapted by Aurand Harris, the play is based on an Italian tale written in the style of Commedia dell’arte. This form of drama was born in Italy in the middle of FROM THE PRESTIGE PACESETTER. PHONE 881-9900 f ’ TWO ON THE ISLES Heller has 2 local offices in the Caribbean and 6 in the Southeast to give you on-the-spot business loans. LENDING MORTGAGE DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENT • Accounts Receivable • Real Estate Loans Financing • Land Acquisition Loans • Equipment Leasing • First and Second • Inventory Loans Mortgages • Overseas Financing • Construction Loans of Georgia ■llUUH Atlanta, Georgia: 100 Northcreek, Suite 640. 404-261-6840 ■ Birmingham, Ala. ■ Miami, Fla. ■ Columbia, S.C. ■ New Orleans, La. ■ Jacksonville, Fla. ■ San Juan, P.R. ■ Kingston, Jamaica THE ALLIANCE THEATRE COMPANY DAVID BISHOP, Producing Director presents THE LAST MEETING OF THE KNIGHTS OF THE WHITE MAGNOLIA by PRESTON JONES with Bob Lawrence Mitchell Edmonds Theodore Martin Alfred Hinckley J. Frank Lucas David Harscheid Philip Pleasants Brad Blaisdell Jim Baker Directed by FRED CHAPPELL Production Designer Lighting by MICHAEL STAUFFER MICHAEL LAYTON Costume Designer Production Stage Manager PATRICIA McMAHON stephen j. McCorkle Production Manager Technical Director DAN B. SEDGWICK ERIK MAGNUSON IN 1907, JACK DANIEL’S NEPHEW said, “All Goods Worth Price Charged.” We’re still saying it in times like these. Mr. Lem Motlow put this slogan on jugs and crocks of his uncle’s whiskey. You see, he knew that no other whiskey was made with pure, iron-free water. And that other distiller mellowed his product through hard maple charcoal before aging. Mr. Motlow knew value when he saw it.
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