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Subscribe today and go first class next season at a no frills price! » Come Back to the 5 and Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean A Smash Success . Our new play this season, Ed Graczyk’s Come Back to the 5 and Dime Jimmy Dean. Jimmy Dean, which closed March 12, was the biggest hit in the Alliance > Theatre’s history. It broke all box office records and won highest praise from audiences and critics alike: Bravo! There’s great excitement on the . Alliance Stage, and it’s going to shake the "Since 1908, we ve been making earth and cause an explosion that should the women of Atlanta our busi­ erupt right in the middle of Broadway. The first professional production ness! View our collections of anywhere of Ohio playwright Ed Graczyk’s active, classic and pacesetting “Come Back to the 5 and Dime Jimmy Dean, sportswear separates to coordi­ Jimmy Dean" brought down the house opening night and well it should have. nate for your lifestyle. Visit any of Helen C. Smith our five stores. 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If it is produced in New 8 BIG STORES IN ATLANTA York, remember you saw its premiere open every night and Sunday afternoons professional production on stage at the Alliance Theatre. 17 ApplianceCatalog Stores all around the Atlanta area All the Way Home 24 Hour Catalog Shopping On the Alliance Stage April 7-22 by phone from home, call 892-4242 For our fifth play of the season we are pleased to present All the Way Home. Tad Surplus and Bargain Stores with closeouts from catalog and stores Mosel’s stage adaptation of James Agee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Death in the Family, won the New York Critics’ PLEASE SEE YOUR TELEPHONE DIRECTORY FOR MORE Award and a Pulitzer Prize in 1961 when it SPECIAL SERVICES INCLUDING ■ ■ was produced with Colleen Dewhurst playing the role of Mary Follet. Playing Mary Follet in the Alliance’s SEARS CARPET CLEANING production will be Dana Ivey who has call 351-4082 already won critical acclaim this season on SEARS DRAIN & SEWER SERVICE our stage as Hedda Gabler, Mona in Come call 892-6565 Back to the 5 and Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, and as Shaw’s beautiful SEARS DRIVING SCHOOL Polish aviatrix in Misalliance. Miss Ivey call 352-3400 will be joined in All the Way Home by another actress who won the hearts of FLOWERS BY SEARS audiences with her first performance in call 325-0337 (Atlanta) Atlanta as Chickabiddy in Misalliance, or 422-0656 (Marietta) Miss Patricia Falkenhain. SEARS MEAT & FROZEN FOOD All the Way Home is the story of a “death in the family,” but it is also the story call 325-5359 of the love and humor that preceded the SEARS RENT-A-CAR death, and that must overcome it. We call 261-6700 (Buckhead) think you and your family will find it one or 659-5010 (Downtown) of the most moving and heart-warming theatre experiences you have ever had. SEARS TERMITE & PEST CONTROL call 351-4082 Alliance Theatre Presents This year Alliance Theatre’s artistic director Fred Chappell will direct one of Shakespeare’s favorite history plays, Henry IV Part I, the story of two young men growing into manhood. Gold Rolex Watches. Superb timepieces in a classic style. In 18 karat yellow gold with hidden-clasp bracelets. A. Lady’s Date watch, $2300. B. Man’s Day-Date watch, $3300. To Love Is to Give.« 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 Young Prince Hal, who will become King Henry V, spends his time carousing with Falstaff and Mistress Quickly at the Boar’s Head Tavern while his father Henry IV attends the business of state and bemoans his misfortune in not having a son like Northumberland’s son Henry Percy, surnamed Hotspur: Oh. that it could be proved That some night-tripping fairy had exchanged In cradle clothes our children where they lay. And called mine Percy, his Plantagenet! Then would 1 have his Harry, and he mine. Hotspur is a blunt, rash, practical young man, a fiery and impatient soldier who seems much more suited to the seriousness of ruling a country. So while Prince Hal drinks, entertains himself, and plays a waiting game, Hotspur is ambitiously establishing himself as a soldier of consequence. The contrast between the two young men creates an interesting study in personality and action, and it is an effect which Shakespeare must have considered dramatically significant, because to come to our collections historically the two young men portrayed in Henry IV Part I as contemporaries were of fashion for the not. Prince Hal was only fourteen when in 1403, he fought against the rebels and entire family, the home, Hotspur at the battle of Shrewsbury, and Hotspur was then thirty-nine, three years gifts and antiques too. older than Hal’s father. Henry IV Part I will be on stage at the Do stay for luncheon Alliance Theatre April 28-30, May 5-7, and or tea at our Bird Cage May 12-14. restaurant, open every ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA shopping day. Lord & Taylor, Activities For 1976-77 Continue While Those For 1977-78 Begin Phipps Plaza, Peachtree Season tickets for 1977-78 are now Road between Wieuca available. 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THE ALLIANCE THEATRE COMPANY DAVID BISHOP, Producing Director FRED CHAPPELL, Artistic Director presents H€NPYIVi by William Shakespeare Directed by FRED CHAPPELL with TREY ALTEMOSE MARIANNE HAMMOCK IAN MacMILLAN DAVID BRAUCHER JEROY HANNAH GIB MANEGOLD MORRIS BROWN TED HENNING DONALD C. MOORE PETER BURNELL DANA IVEY K. LYPE O’DELL STUART CULPEPPER SONNY KNOX JIM PECK SCOTT E. DePOY PHILIP KRAUS ANTHONY SABON JAMES M. GOUGH CLAYTON LANDEY WENDY WALKER DICKSON LANE Sets Designed By Costumes Designed By MICHAEL STAUFFER PHILIPP JUNG and MICHAEL STAUFFER Lights Designed By Properties Designed By CASSANDRA HENNING SAM BAGARELLA Production Stage Manager Technical Director ALLEN WRIGHT ERIK MAGNUSON Production Manager BAXTER JOY The use of recording devices or cameras during the performance is strictly prohibited.