Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean

The Murfreesboro Ensemble Theater Center for the Arts, Nashville

About the Show

A reunion is planned in a small Texas five and dime for the members of a 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 1975 and 1955, flashbacks show the Disciples frenzied over James 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. By the end of the stormy evening, Joanne has exposed the secrets and self-deceptions with which her friends have been living.