The Last Night Of Ballyhoo Script

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.

The Last Night Of Ballyhoo Script

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.

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  1. Notwithstanding these problems, many will certainly find “The Last Night of Ballyhoo” to be a pleasant and inspiring play for the holiday time of year. However, this production’s allures cannot overwhelm the script’s broadly reduced take on a topic that is worthy of in-depth, and considerate examination.
  2. 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.
  3. The Last Night of Ballyhoo (1996) is a comedy/drama play by American screenwriter and playwright Alfred Uhry.First performed in Atlanta, Georgia, it is set in the city’s past; specifically, in December 1939 at the onset of World War II.

The Last Night Of Ballyhoo Script

In his second play, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Alfred Uhry explores the lives of Jewish southerners, a society that he introduced to the American theater-going public with his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Driving Miss Daisy. The setting and plot of The Last Night of Ballyhoo developed from stories Uhry heard growing up in a southern Jewish family, as well as his own experiences. As he told Don Shewey from American Theatre, 'I went to one of the last Ballyhoos there was, when I was 16—it was like a German-Jewish debutante ball.' However, Uhry also had a keen desire to explore Jewish identity, including prejudice inflicted on Jews by other Jews. Uhry combined these two interests to create the privileged world of the Levy/Freitag families. They live in a large home on one of Atlanta's finest streets. They belong to an elite country club. Their children may attend prestigious private universities. All these trappings and conveniences of wealth, however, cannot change the fact that they are Jews who live in an overwhelmingly Christian society. The prejudice that they experience as a result of their religion does not deter them from embracing mainstream southern society or from replicating this discrimination within their own culture; German-Jews such as the Levys and Freitags look down on 'the other kind' of Jews—Eastern European Jews. While The Last Night of Ballyhoo deftly explores this anti-Semitism, Uhry also intersperses his serious message with sparkling banter, comedic non sequiturs, and hilarious characters and characterization. The Last Night of Ballyhoo was first produced at the Atlanta Olympic Games in 1996 and went to Broadway the following year; its play script is available from Theatre Communications Group.