Set in 1939 - the beginning of World War II, but well before the United States' entry - Ballyhoo focuses on an upper-middle-class Jewish family in Atlanta. But his 1997 Ballyhoo, for all the subtlety it lacks, does give inspired actors some good bits to chew. It's not just the wandering accents and dialogue flubs - heck, people muff their lines in real life all the time - but the failure to enter the characters for anything more than a superficial reading of the script.Ĭertainly, playwright Alfred Uhry knows from superficial his Driving Miss Daisy took shallowness to new depths. The show is a comedy-drama that falters on the timing necessary for the former, and on the passion required to fuel the latter. It seems so mean to slap down people as earnest as the folks in the Apple Hill Playhouse production of The Last Night of Ballyhoo.
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