Show Plot Last Night of Ballyhoo

Authors: Alfred Uhry

Time Period: December 1939 (the onset of World War II and the premiere of Gone with the Wind)

Setting: The spacious, elegant living room of the Freitag family home on an upscale street in Atlanta, Georgia

Summary:

The Last Night of Ballyhoo is a 1996 comedic-drama play that follows an upper-class, highly assimilated German-Jewish family as they prepare for a lavish country club ball while confronting hidden family prejudices and external global events.