Dynamic text displaying alpha?

I’ve been making a game in ActionScript 2.0 Flash CS3. Now I want to be able to display my characters alpha using dynamic text. The instance name for the character is char and the Var for the dynamic text is alpha.
I want to be able to display the characters alpha and ALSO the characters current alpha in other leves for example.

Variable for lives in level 1:
_root.lives = 5;

Variable for lives in level 2:
_root.currentlives = lives;

I want to be able to do the exact thing but display the ‘char’ alpha instead.