![]() ![]() The cast, under Director Ilene Chalmers, deftly handled an extremely talky play. The family and their milieu put one in mind of characters in Driving Miss Daisy. There’s also Joe Farkas, recently relocated from New York City-Adolph’s employee and lastly Peachy Weil, a suitor from Lake Charles, Louisiana. The family features a Jewish man named Adolph, (in a play that takes place a few months after Hitler conquered Poland), who owns the Dixie Bedding Company Adolph’s sister Boo Levy, a widow, who insists “Jewish Christmas trees don’t have stars” a nerdy young woman, Lala, Boo’s daughter, who is obsessed with Gone with the Wind and is writing a novel entitled Though Your Sins Be Scarlet as well as mother Reba Freitag (Adolf’s sister-in-law) and Reba’s daughter Sunny. It’s December 1939 in Atlanta, Georgia, and the Freitag family is a study in assimilation, complete with a picture of General Robert E. Jean Berard (Boo), Jeanne Louise (Reba), Michael Safko (Peachy), and Spencer Kate Nelson (Lala) in ‘The Last Night of Ballyhoo.’ Photo by Ric Brown. ![]() Who is a Jew? Will you go with me to the Ballyhoo ball? Those are two questions the Jewish upper-middle-class Freitag family kvetch about during the happenings of playwright Alfred Uhry’s The Last Night of Ballyhoo. ![]()
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