The Last Night Of Ballyhoo Summary
Performing at (Mar 14 - Mar 25) Runtime: 2 Hours 30 MinutesSynopsisBy Alfred Uhry Directed by Michael AndronBy the author of Driving Miss Daisy, this Tony Award winning play once again explores the lives of Jews in the American south. It is December of 1939. Gone with the Wind is having its world premiere, and Hitler is invading Poland, but Atlanta's uppercrust Freitag family is much more concerned with who is going to Ballyhoo, Atlanta’s Jewish cotillion and the social event of the season. The ensuing comedy proves both hilarious and thought provoking as it touches on themes of assimilation, anti-semitism and change. Theater InformationJCAT is the performing theatre of the Michael-Ann Russell JCC, a year- round program for youth, teens, and adults, where participants are part of a magical world of theatre, with a full season of productions, theatre camps, and a wide range of classes and workshops in acting, improvisation and technical theatre. JCAT is committed to challenge, enlighten, educate, and entertain its audiences through its multi-tier program.Will call is open one hour before curtain time. Tickets must be picked up 10 minutes prior to curtain ADA accessible seating is limited.
The Last Night of Ballyhoo is a play written by Alfred Uhry, the Pulitzer winning author of Driving Miss Daisy. Ballyhoo is a powerful insight into what it meant to be Jewish in the American south on the eve of World War II. Only 99 pages in length yet packing a punch, I rate this play 4.5 stars.
The Last Night of Ballyhoo
Book By: Alfred Uhry
Directed by: Pat Kennedy
Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service
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Run of Show
“Last Night of Ballyhoo” ran November 5 – 20, 1999 Thursday through Saturday at 8:00pm, Sunday at 2:00pm
Synopsis
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.
The People …
Leading Roles
in order of appearance
| Adolph Freitag | Norb Mills |
| Boo Levy | Sherry Ballou |
| Reba Freitag | Jean Mills |
| Lala Levy | Kathy Piech |
| Sunny Freitag | Lauren Plungas |
| Joe Farkas | Ben Lumbrezer |
| Peachy Weil | Jake Gordy |
Production Staff
| Director | Pat Kennedy |
| Producer | Ben Lumbrezer, Barb Vaught |
| Set Design | Matt Wiederhold |
| Stage Manager | Debbie Marinik, Joanne Toth |
| Lighting Design | Jake Gordy, Ben Lumbrezer |
| Lighting Crew | Dan Marinik, Charlie Lumbrezer |
| Costume Design | Sondra Henry |
| Costume Crew | Rhea Kimball |
| Property Managers | Andy & Vicky Anderson |
| Property Crew | Ernie Brown, Jean Brown, John Henry, Brenda Sweeney, Barb & Rick Vaught |
| Set Construction | Matt Wiederhold |
| Sound Design | Don Weber, Steve Zaborniak |
| Sound Crew | Mark Malley, Don Weber |
| Program | Don Weber |
| Program Art & Cover Design | Rhea Kimball |
| House Manager | Ann Veasey |
| Box Office | Ann Veasey, Joe & Carol Kwiatkowski, Judy Wiederhold, Roger Whitmore, Kimberly Bruggemann, Sue Hollinger, Lisa Jackson |
| Program Printing | Malhoit Printing |
| Theater Marquee Signs | Willard Misfeldt |
| Cast Photography | Bev Norman |
The Show!
Place: Atlanta, Georgia
Time: December, 1939
Act I
Scene 1: Early evening
Scene 2: An hour later
Scene 3: Aboard the Crescent Limited
Scene 4: Eight a.m. the following morning
Scene 5: Eleven o’clock that night
Act II
Scene 1: The next morning
Scene 2: That night
Scene 3: Eleven a.m., Christmas morning
Scene 4: The next night
Scene 5: At the Standard Club
Scene 6: Several hours later
Scene 7: Aboard the Crescent Limited
Scene 8: The Freitag home