The Last Night of Ballyhoo
By Alfred Uhry
Chad Borden, Randi
Lynne
Weidman, Judy Walstrum
Music from Gone
With
the Wind
by Max Steiner
SETTING
Atlanta, Georgia -
December
1939
The action takes
place in
Adolph Freitag’s house,
at the Standard
Club, and
aboard the Crescent Limited.
ACT
ONE
Scene One: Early
evening,
several weeks before Christmas
Scene Two: An hour
later
Scene Three:
Five
days later
Scene Four:
Eight
o’clock the following morning
Scene Five:
Eleven
o’clock that night
ACT
TWO
Scene One: The next
morning
Scene Two:
That night
Scene Three:
Christmas
Day
Scene Four:
The next
night
Scene Five:
An hour
later
Scene Six:
Several
hours later
Scene Seven:
Two
weeks later
| Winner of
the 1997 Tony
Award for Best Play, and written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning
author
of Driving Miss Daisy, The Last Night of Ballyhoo is a charming
and bittersweet comedy set in Atlanta on the eve of World War II. It’s
Christmas, 1939. Gone With the Wind is having its world premiere
and Hitler is invading Poland. Meanwhile, a segment of Atlanta’s Jewish
elite is more concerned with who will be attending Ballyhoo, the social
event of the season. The arrival of a handsome stranger from New
York forces the Freitag family to deal with who they really are as they
are pulled apart and mended again with plenty of gentle comedy, sweet
romance,
and unexpected turns. |
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