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The Wirtz Center, in partnership with the American Music Theatre Project, presents:
AMTP ~ 5&DIME
Based on the Play Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean by Ed Graczyk. Book by Ashley Robinson. Lyrics by Shakina Nayfack. Music by Dan Gillespie Sells. Directed by Amanda Dehnert.
Sunday, October 16, 2022 at 7:30PM

Struble Black Box Theatre
Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts
1949 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
Located on the southeast part of the Evanston campus just off Sheridan Road on Campus Drive. The Wallis studio theatre space is on the west side of the Wirtz Center/Theater building facing west.

The Wirtz Center will no longer check proof of vaccination; however, masks will be required inside the theatre for performances.

In an old 5&Dime store in a dried-up West Texas town, the “Disciples of James Dean” gather for their twentieth reunion. In 1955 when they were just teenagers, the Hollywood masterpiece GIANT, starring James Dean, was filmed in the neighboring town of Marfa. Small town local Mona was cast as an extra in the movie, but shortly after his death, Mona has a child who she claims was conceived with Dean during the shoot. As the ladies reminisce about their youth, the arrival of a stunning-but-familiar stranger exposes bitter disappointments, delusions, and long-suppressed truths, unearthing bonds the disciples didn’t know they had.