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The Last Night of Ballyhoo
By Alfred Uhry
Bay Area Stage Announces - AUDITIONS!
Directed by Matthew Cardigan
Winner of the 1997 Tony Award® for Best Play.
THE
STORY:
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.
Especially
concerned
is
the
Freitag
family:
bachelor
Adolph;
his
widowed
sister,
Beulah
(Boo)
Levy;
and
their
also
widowed
sister-in-law,
Reba.
Boo
is
determined
to
have
her
dreamy,
unpopular
daughter,
Lala,
attend
Ballyhoo,
believing
it
will
be
Lala’s
last
chance
to
find
a
socially
acceptable
husband.
Adolph
brings
his
new
assistant,
Joe
Farkas,
home
for
dinner.
Joe
is
Brooklyn
born
and
bred,
and
furthermore
is
of
Eastern
European
heritage—several
social
rungs
below
the
Freitags,
in
Beulah’s
opinion.
Lala,
however,
is
charmed
by
Joe
and
she
hints
broadly
about
being
taken
to
Ballyhoo,
but
he
turns
her
down.
This
enrages
Boo,
and
matters
get
worse
when Joe falls for Lala’s cousin, Reba’s daughter, Sunny, home from Wellesley for Christmas vacation.
Will
Boo
succeed
in
snaring
Peachy
Weil,
a
member
of
one
of
the
finest
Jewish
families
in
the
South?
Will
Sunny
and
Joe
avoid
the
land
mines
of
prejudice
that
stand
in
their
way?
Will
Lala
ever
get
to
Ballyhoo?
The
family
gets
pulled
apart
and
then
mended
together
with
plenty
of
comedy,
romance,
and
revelations
along
the
way.
Events
take
several
unexpected
turns
as
the
characters
face
where
they
come
from and are forced to deal with who they really are.
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