The Last Night of Ballyhoo
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.

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The Last Night of Ballyhoo
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.

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The Last Night of Ballyhoo

The Last Night of Ballyhoo

by Alfred Uhry
The Last Night of Ballyhoo

The Last Night of Ballyhoo

by Alfred Uhry

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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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781559361408
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Publication date: 10/01/1997
Pages: 96
Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Alfred Uhry is an American playwright and screenwriter. His accolades include an Academy Award, two Tony Awards, and the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for dramatic writing for Driving Miss Daisy, the first in his Atlanta Trilogy.

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