Louisiana Tech Theatre: The Last Night of Ballyhoo

Opening night is Wednesday, January 28 at 7:30 p.m. in Stone Theatre located in Louisiana Tech’s Howard Center for the Performing Arts. The full run of performances is January 28 – 31, 2015 and February 4 – 7, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. each night. For more information, please contact the Louisiana Tech Theatre office at 318-257-2930.
 
Ticket prices are as follows: $20 general admission, $10 students with student ID, $15 youth under 14 years old, $15 seniors 65 years old and up.  For group rates, please contact the box office, located in the Lobby of Howard Auditorium, at 318-257-3942. Their hours are Monday – Friday from 1:30 p.m. to 4:45 p.m.. 

Winner of the 1997 Tony Award for Best Play, Alfred Uhry’s 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. The family gets pulled apart and then mended together with plenty of comedy, romance and revelations along the way. Events take several  unexpected turns as the characters face where they come from and are forced to deal with who they really are.