“The Last Night of Ballyhoo,” by Alfred Uhry, directed by Linda Lavin for The Red Barn. With a Tony-winning script and near-perfect cast, “Ballyhoo,” about a Southern, 1930s Jewish family. The Last Night of Ballyhoo was first produced at the Atlanta Olympic Games in 1996 and went to Broadway the following year; its playscript is available from Theatre Communications Group. His father was a furniture designer and artist, and his mother was a social worker. Arizona Repertory Theatre tackles a weak script in The Last Night of Ballyhoo: The last night of: Ballyhoo, by Alfred Uhry, takes place in 1939 in the Atlanta home of an assimilated Jewish. It’s The Last Night of Ballyhoo, a Tony-winning script in 1997. We recall only one previous production hereabouts, at the Sacramento Theatre Company nearly a decade ago. Ballyhoo is a drama about coming of age and finding one’s identity, set in the small, cozy, social world of Atlanta’s affluent Jewish families, circa 1939. Monologue from Last Night at Ballyhoo. Here’s monologue #2, as spoken by Sunny Freitag in Last Night at Ballyhoo. Everybody I know has a Christmas tree. It doesn’t mean we’re not Jewish. I could call myself Sunny O'Houlihan and everybody would still know what I am. I imagine you grew up in a Jewish neighborhood. You were like everybody else.
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The Department of Theatre and Dance in Florida Atlantic University's Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters presents 'The Last Night of Ballyhoo,' a play by Alfred Uhry. The play runs from Friday, April 10 through Sunday, April 19 in the Studio One Theatre, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton campus.
The play takes place in December 1939. Hitler has invaded Poland, while in Atlanta, Georgia, the city is celebrating the world premiere of 'Gone with the Wind.' The Freitag family of Atlanta identifies with being American southerners more than being German Jews. They, along with their fellow wealthy German Jews in Atlanta, are more concerned with who is going to Ballyhoo, the annual social Jewish event of the season.
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Shows are on Fridays at 7 p.m.; Saturdays at 7 p.m.; and Sundays at 2 p.m. There will also be a 2 p.m. showing on Saturday, Feb. 21, and there will be a talkback after the Sunday, April 12 matinee. General admission tickets are $20; students, faculty, staff, alumni and children under age 12 may purchase tickets for $12; and group prices are available. Tickets can be purchased by calling 1-800-564-9539, www.fauevents.com or at the box office in FAU's Student Union, Monday - Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.