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(Next lo Houston's Restaurant) Tate F75 enl 107 West Paces Ferry Rd or lake 1285 Hy 41 So 3 5 miles So ot Cumberland Man 231-2160 HOURS. Mon thru Sat. 10-7 by Fay Bright The AJCC Center Players opened its 1986-87 season Thursday, Sept. 18, with Neil Simon’s first full- length play, “Come Blow Your Horn.” First produced in I960, the play is as fresh as the current crop of coming-of-age films and just as entertaining. At 33, Alan Baker is a typical “Little Boy Blue” of nur sery-rhyme fame. He is flagrantly neglectful of his duties as a son and as a salesman in the family busi ness. He excels as a ladies’ man and all-around good-time wastrel. His 2l-year-old brother Buddy is tired of working in the family’s waxed fruit business, “...looking at petri fied apples and pears and plums. They never rot, they never turn brown, they never grow old. It’s like the fruit version of ‘The Pic ture of Dorian Gray.’ ” Alan assures Buddy that his days will be more bearable if he bites the real fruit of life at night. And that is why Buddy appears at Alan’s door, suitcase in hand. He wants to start tasting—it’s research for his new career as a writer. Buddy has always been the good son: earnest, conscientious, naive. Harry Baker, their father, holds Buddy up as an example to his elder son, a device often used, inef fectually, by parents. The father calls Alan a bum! Alan retorts that he is either treated like a child or ignored when trying to participate in the running of the family busi ness. Alan says, “Admit it, Dad. You don’t give me the same respect you give the night watchman.” Baker senior counters with: “At In the final scene of the A JCC Center Players’ production of “Come Blow Your Horn,” Eileen Reuben (left) shocks Nace Few into proposing as a surprised Bebe Forehand, Stephen Clifford and Bill Greeley watch. least I know where he is nights...The day your brother becomes like you, 1 throw myself in front of an air plane.” Of course. Buddy does change and Alan, seeing himself in Buddy, becomes more traditional and con servative, just like his father. The plot centers on the revelations— both comic and poignant—that lead to their role reversal. The production, directed by Ted Manson, an actor as well as a tal ented director, is bright, crisp and fast-paced. The physicality of actor, mime, puppeteer Stephen Clifford’s droll portrayal of the perfect son-gone- wrong visually captured the con straints of Buddy’s life. 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Greeley, a newco mer to Atlanta theater, was very active on the stage up North. His Harry Baker is tyrannical, opin ionated, insulting and loving as only a father can be. Commercial and film actor and print model Nace Few looked the part of the handsome, debonair Alan Baker. As the jaded playboy- salesman-elder son. Few knew all the right lines and how to execute the right moves. It was in pro nouncing the lines that he ran into trouble. Many of his speeches were unintelligible. His southern accent was completely out of place for his New York character. Eileen Reuben and Kathi Fair Pelliccione as the love and lust interests, respectively, were delight ful. Reuben’s Connie Drayton was beautiful, charming and headstrong. Connie, Alan’s favorite, is an in dustrial show performer. One could easily envision butchers crying while she, dressed as a sausage, sang “Why Not Take All of Of Me? ” Pelliccione’s intelligent por trayal of what was written as the blonde bimbo role kept the play from seeming dated. The play’s producer, Mary Lou Lazarus, is most amusing in her cameo appearance. The cool palette chosen for the graphically bold, tri-level set (de signed by committee) and the beau tiful or appropriately horrible cos tumes (no credits given) was chill ing but did not put the cast’s ebul lient performance on thin ice. The lighting—on and off—was serviceable and ajways on cue. If you like to laugh, don’t miss this production of “Come Blow Your Horn.” It runs through Sept. 28. For more information, call 875-7881. ■■■■■ MB mmmmm