Coal Creek Community Theater of Louisville, CO presents the first show of their 20th Season, The Last Night of Ballyhoo.
The Last Night of Ballyhoo
By Alfred Uhry
Directed by Russ Orr
Starring:
Greg Christopher
Linda Marquez
Cathy Ode
Eric Olson
Linda Orr
Chelsea Rossetto
Maxwell Schwartz
February 20, 21, 22*, 27, 28 & March 1*, 6, 7
Performances begin at 7:30pm
*Sunday Matinees begin at 2:00pm
Louisville Center for the Arts
801 Grant St.
Louisville, CO 80027
Tickets:
Adults - $15
Students and Seniors - $12
Box Office:
303-665-0955
www.ccctheater.org
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.
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