Word: graczyk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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COME BACK TO THE 5 & DIME, JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN by Ed Graczyk...
...irony is quickly apparent: the several women and one man who spend their time in the five and ten in McCarthy, Texas, are spiritual midgets, made small by life and their own tediously limited ambitions. But there is a double irony, invisible perhaps to those onstage: Playwright Ed Graczyk and Director Robert Altaian can also be counted among the Lilliputians, and it would take the talents of a logician to determine who should get the greater blame for this misguided effort...
Except for Dennis, who has been allowed to turn an interesting neurosis into unbearable monotony, the acting is polished. In her first time on Broadway, Cher proves herself a promising comedienne, but a still aspiring dramatic actress. Altman, however, has engineered the shifts between years with stunning incompetence, while Graczyk, the executive director of the Columbus Players Theater, has overloaded his 5 & Dime with enough junky symbolism to warrant an eviction notice. As each character is stripped of her life-sustaining illusion, it becomes obvious that though the setting is Texas, we are really in Ibsen's Norway. That...