Tony-Award-Winning play kicking off theatre season
The Chadron State College theatre program will open its season Oct. 7 with “The Last Night of Ballyhoo,” a Tony Award-winning romantic comedy by Alfred Uhry.
The play, which features the acting of seven CSC students, is scheduled to the Memorial Hall Auditorium stage at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, Oct. 7-9, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 10.
Roger Mays, CSC director of theatre, said the play tells a great story and is suitable for all ages.
Set in 1939 in Atlanta, the play begins on the night of the grand opening of “Gone With The Wind.” The Freitag house is full of excitement for both Christmas and Ballyhoo, in which the young southern Jewish people gather for an end-of-the year celebration and dance.
Sunny and Lala are the two daughters in the Freitag house. Their mothers, Reba and Boo, struggle to get their daughters appropriate dates for the biggest event of the year, catching Uncle Adolph in the middle of all the feminine uproar.
“Uhry’s wonderfully drawn characters and excellent script won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1998,” Mays said.
Uhry’s other works include both the play and the movie “Driving Miss Daisy,” the adaptation of the musical “Little Johnny Jones,” and the book and lyrics for “The Robber Bridegroom.”
The cast features Amber Nightingale of Morrill as Lala Levy, Angela Isabell of Scottsbluff as Sunny Freitag, Jayma Loghry of Sidney as Boo Levy, Angela Heesacker of Hay Springs as Reba Freitag, Rob Foresman of Papillion as Adolph Freitag, Travis Beguin of Rushville as Joe Farkas, and Brad Buckles of Cheyenne, Wyo., as Peachy Weil.
Tickets are available at boxoffice@csc.edu or by calling 308-432-6207 Monday through Friday from 2-6 p.m.
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