The Last Night Of Ballyhoo
by Alfred Uhry

Name: The Last Night Of Ballyhoo
Brand: Alfred Uhry
SKU: 9781559361408
Rating: 3.7 (375 reviews)

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Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

120 mins American Comedy

Awards & Recognition

Drama Desk Award Outer Critics Circle Pulitzer Prize Tony Award

Winner! 1997 Tony Award for Best Play Winner! 1997 Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Broadway Play Finalist: 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Nominee: Three 1997 Drama Desk Awards, including Outstanding New Play

Synopsis

Winner of the 1997 Tony Award for Best Play

"Surprising, luminous, and powerful.

It will mostl likely find a place in the American canon alongside Uhry's Driving Miss Daisy.

" —Laurie Winer, Los Angeles Times

A bittersweet romantic comedy set in Atlanta in 1939, on the eve of World War II and the opening night of Gone with the Wind

, Alfred Uhry's The Last Night of Ballyhoo deals in a very personal way with being Jewish in the South, depicting the prejudices that existed between German-American Jews and "the other kind."

Press Reviews

"A delightful comedy freighted with an uncomfortable message."
— New York Post

"Alfred Uhry’s achingly beautiful play The Last Night of Ballyhoo [is] luminous and powerful. It will most likely find a place in the American canon alongside Uhry’s Driving Miss Daisy… Uhry draws his characters with so fine a pen, on such a solid foundation, that the story takes on the sharp poignancy of life."
— Los Angeles Times

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Boo Levy his sister, a few years older	female	—	his sister, a few years older
Reba Freitag his sister-in-law, middle 40s	female	40s	his sister-in-law, middle 40s
Lala Levy Boo’s daughter, 20s	female	20s	Boo’s daughter, 20s
Sunny Freitag Reba’s daughter, 20s	female	20s	Reba’s daughter, 20s
Joe Farkas Adolph’s business assistant, 20s	—	20s	Adolph’s business assistant, 20s
Peachy Weil a visitor from Lake Charles, 20s	—	20s	a visitor from Lake Charles, 20s
Adolph Freitag a businessman, late 40s	—	40s	a businessman, late 40s