We lost Dolly Parton on Tuesday, and like a lot of people I’ve been thinking about her all week. I’ve spent a lot of time in East Tennessee since joining Regal, and it didn’t take long to understand what she meant there. People talked about her like a neighbor rather than a star. Everyone knows the songs and the films obviously, but they also talked about the books - how their children or grandchildren received a book in the mail every month when they were young.
This weekend, our teams are putting two of her films back on the big screen across the state - The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas on Saturday, Steel Magnolias on Sunday, at 12 theatres from Chattanooga to Clarksville. Tickets are $9.25 and every dollar goes to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library in Tennessee through the Governor’s Early Literacy Foundation. The following weekend, we’ll expand the program nationwide. Sitting in a room with other people who loved Dolly is one of the few things a theatre can offer at a time like this, and it felt like the right thing for us to do.
Thank you to the Dollywood Foundation and the Governor’s Early Literacy Foundation for working with us quickly, and to our theatre teams in Tennessee, who pulled this together in a matter of days. Dolly started something here that now reaches children everywhere, many of whom may never know her name. She will be missed by all of us at Regal, and we’re grateful for the chance to help carry a small part of her work forward.
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library The Dollywood Foundation