![]() ![]() Lala has quit at everything she has ever done and at age 25 is already destined for spinsterhood. Lala, an unmarried girl in her twenties, is more interested in becoming the next Margaret Mitchell than she is in marrying a nice Jewish boy and settling down.īoth Lala's mother Boo and aunt Reba would like for her to find a Jewish boy at Ballyhoo, the equivalent of a southern debutante ball. The family has never heard of Chanukah and on a Friday night there is no mention of the Sabbath. ![]() Even though the extended Levy- Freitag family ranks as one of the oldest Jewish families in Atlanta, they have faced their share of anti-Semitism through the years and have caved to peer pressure to act American. The play begins as Lala Levy is decorating an Xmas tree. Only 99 pages in length yet packing a punch, I rate this play 4.5 stars. Ballyhoo is a powerful insight into what it meant to be Jewish in the American south on the eve of World War II. The Last Night of Ballyhoo is a play written by Alfred Uhry, the Pulitzer winning author of Driving Miss Daisy. ![]()
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