Productions 2005-2006

The Last Night of Ballyhoo
by Alfred Uhry
Directed by Terry Allen

Riverside Theatre

May 4-6 & 10-13 at 7:30 p.m.
May 7 at 1:30 p.m.

The Last Night of Ballyhoo Photo Gallery

Winner of the 1997 Tony Award for Best Play, The Last Night of Ballyhoo takes place in Atlanta, Georgia, in December of 1939. Gone with the Wind is having its world premiere and Hitler is invading Poland, but Atlanta's elitist German Jews are much more concerned with who is going to Ballyhoo, the social event of the season. Alfred Uhry's bittersweet romantic comedy deals in a very personal way with being Jewish in the South, depicting the prejudices that exist between German-American Jews and "the other kind."

"Achingly beautiful...however conventional this essentially one-set southern family drama may look on the surface, the play is in fact surprising, luminous and powerful. It will most likely find a place in the American canon along with Uhry's Driving Miss Daisy." --Los Angeles Times

Cast

Adolph Freitag...................Mark Saienga

Boo Levy....................Melissa Briggs

Reba Freitag....................Abbie Williams

Lala Levy....................Tera Kaminski

Sunny Freitag...................Jennifer Aldridge

Joe Farkas......................Mike Evano

Peachy Weil.....................John Harrigan

 

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