Brownwood News – The Brownwood Lyric Theatre opens this upcoming Friday, September 15th, with a southern comedy written by the author of “Driving Miss Daisy.” The show, titled “The Last Night at Ballyhoo,” takes place in Atlanta, Georgia, in December of 1939.
In the play, “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 performance promises to offer “a night of laughs, romance and an unexpected insight into a different time and place.”
“The Last Night at Ballyhoo” will be showing at the Brownwood Lyric Theatre, located at 318 Center Avenue, Friday September 15th – Sunday September 24th. Tickets and showtimes are available at brownwoodlyrictheatre.com
