Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean

JD Productions presents Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, by Ed Graczyk, directed by Richard Hochberg. The play is set inside the H.L. Kressmont Company (a nickel and dime emporium) in McCarthy, Texas where a reunion is planned for the members of a local 1950s James Dean Fan Club.

Mona is a high-strung asthmatic who has spent the past twenty years clerking in the dime store. Former president of The Disciples Of James Dean, she still carries an obsessive torch for her idol. Sissy, the wise-cracking waitress at the local truck stop, loves to boast about her large bosoms as well as her sexual escapades. Only three other Disciples appear for the reunion, including a mystery guest named Joanne, an old acquaintance who has returned to settle several old scores. The play shifts between 1980 and 1955, flashbacks show the Disciples frenzied over Dean’s arrival in a nearby town to shoot the film Giant. It is revealed that Mona got a job as an extra on the Giant shoot and nine months later gave birth to a son, who she claims is James Dean’s child.