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| the last night of ballyhoo script: A Study Guide for Alfred Uhry's "The Last Night of Ballyhoo" Gale, Cengage Learning, 2016 A Study Guide for Alfred Uhry's The Last Night of Ballyhoo, excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs. |
| the last night of ballyhoo script: The Big Funk John Patrick Shanley, 1991 THE STORY: A series of self-revelations opens the book of life on the characters, drawing their view of life. From here we watch them interact: Omar throws knives for a living and muses about the state of the world. His understanding wife, Fifi, su |
| the last night of ballyhoo script: The Last Night of Ballyhoo Alfred Uhry, 1997 To all appearances, The Last Night of Ballyhoo declares itself to be nothing more than an old-fashioned, family-centered, living-room comedy ... |
| the last night of ballyhoo script: The Highest Tree Dore Schary, 1961 THE STORY: As told by McClain, [Schary's] hero is a physicist who has been working on a military project and is brought up sharp with the pronouncement that he has acute leukemia and has only six months to live. The realization affects his relatio |
| the last night of ballyhoo script: Answers Ernest Thompson, 1980 THE STORIES: In A GOOD TIME, a kooky New York career girl gets an unexpected visit from the California highway patrolman who stopped her for speeding several years earlier. In return for not giving her a ticket she promised him a good time if he |
| the last night of ballyhoo script: Only You Timothy Mason, 1995 THE STORY: Leo is a little intense, planning a lifetime with Miriam on their first date. Even Leo's mysterious whispering mentor, Big Voice, can't succeed in getting Leo to lighten up, and Miriam shows Leo the door. Friends counsel friends in this |
| the last night of ballyhoo script: Skyscraper David Auburn, 1998 THE STORY: Jessica, a young photographer fighting to save the building, has injured herself trying to take pictures of the crumbling skyscraper. She and her lawyer, Jane, are suing the demolisher, Raymond. Raymond has his own troubles: He has just |
| the last night of ballyhoo script: Somewhere in Between Craig Pospisil, 1996 THE STORY: Told in ten scenes, the play begins in the dark, as Jasper confesses his feelings of isolation to the audience. But he becomes unnerved in the dark and calls for lights. In the first scene, Jasper is stuck between floors on an elevator with a c |
| the last night of ballyhoo script: The Butler Did it Walter Marks, Peter Marks, 1981 THE STORY: The scene is the set where Anthony J. Lefcourt, writer and director, is rehearsing his new play, a classic whodunit (in which all the characters are named Butler) with which he hopes to regain the success that has eluded him in recent |
| the last night of ballyhoo script: Baby Anger Peter Hedges, 1999 THE STORY: Bringing up baby takes on new meaning for a successful young couple who start living their lives through their baby boy when he is cast in an award-winning commercial--as a girl! Their lives are turned upside down and the spoils of succ |
| the last night of ballyhoo script: The Wisdom of Eve Mary Orr, 1994 THE STORY: Adapted from the story by Mary Orr, on which the film All About Eve and the hit musical APPLAUSE were based. An engrossing and revealing inside story of life in New York's theatre world, told in terms of an unscrupulous ingenue's rise to Broa |
| the last night of ballyhoo script: Pig Tammy Ryan, 1998 THE STORY: It is the day before Labor Day, 1990, four months before the Gulf War and the Robinsons are having a barbecue. Jason, the prodigal son who's been in the Navy since a violent confrontation with his father, has just called from the airport |
| the last night of ballyhoo script: Angels Fall Lanford Wilson, 1983 THE STORY: The scene is a small mission church in a remote part of New Mexico, where a middle-aged college professor and his lovely young wife detour unexpectedly after the highway is closed because of a possible accident at a nearby nuclear faci |
| the last night of ballyhoo script: The Lucky Spot Beth Henley, 1987 THE STORY: The place is Pigeon, Louisiana, the time Christmas 1934--at the low point of the American Depression. Reed Hooker, a compulsive gambler, has won a rundown rural dance hall in a poker game, and hopes that it will make his fortune. Assisted |
| the last night of ballyhoo script: Over My Dead Body Michael David Sutton, Anthony Fingleton, 1998 THE STORY: Hard times have fallen on the Murder League. Trevor Foyle, Dora Winslow, and Bartie Cruickshank, now in their seventies, are the only surviving founders of this very proper British club that once counted Agatha Christie and John Dickson |
| the last night of ballyhoo script: Rats Israel Horovitz, 1968 THE STORY: In Martin Gottfried's words: The story is about two rats. One has control over a rich hunting ground in New York City and the other has come down from Greenwich, Connecticut, looking for an in. The power rat is reluctant to let anybody into his domain but his visitor is convincing and talks his way in, until an infant child makes his appearance. Then the country rat wants his bite, the city rat is revealed as kindhearted and they fight over the screaming baby. It is a hideously powerful conclusion to a fascinating and comic play. The play's fascination, though, is more with its treatment of rats as souls. Mr. Horovitz is not simply dealing with sewer rats in the city. He is also dealing with people-rats in their conniving for position (a subject which he has artfully treated before). The play moves from very funny parallels with social status to very grisly parallels with greed. It is superb and Horovitz has quickly established himself as a playwright of smooth technique, serious intent and great imagination. |
| the last night of ballyhoo script: Transfers; Three One-act Plays Conrad Bromberg, 1970 THE STORIES: The first play, TRANSFERS, finds a glib radio newscaster interviewing an eye witness to a Harlem riot, only to find himself being held up at knifepoint--with the whole episode being tape recorded for all to hear. However, the robber is |
| the last night of ballyhoo script: The Barretts of Wimpole Street Rudolf Besier, 1953-10 THE STORY: The scene is Elizabeth Barrett's room. Here she lives with her father, sisters and brothers. Never too healthy, she has been kept prisoner by her domineering father, who rules his family with unbelievable severity. Her brothers and siste |
| the last night of ballyhoo script: Holiday for Lovers Ronald Alexander, 1957-10 THE STORY: Is the carefree story of the Dean family--Father, Mother and twenty-year-old daughter, Betsy--from Minneapolis, who embark on their first European holiday, to soak up some old world charm and visit with a twenty-three-year-old daughter, Me |
| the last night of ballyhoo script: The Devils Elizabeth Egloff, 1999 THE STORY: In a small provincial town in 1870's Russia, a group of friends hunger to join the national movement for Socialist revolution. Under the influence of their idealistic new leader, Peter Verkhovensky, they risk arrest by producing a poster |
| the last night of ballyhoo script: Mr. Peters' Connections Arthur Miller, 1999 Length: 1 act. |
| the last night of ballyhoo script: The Art and Practice of Directing for Theatre Paul B. Crook, 2016-09-13 The formation and communication of vision is one of the primary responsibilities of a director, before ever getting to the nuts and bolts of the process. The Art and Practice of Directing for Theatre helps the young director learn how to discover, harness, and meld the two. Providing both a practical and theoretical foundation for directors, this book explores how to craft an artistic vision for a production, and sparks inspiration in directors to put their learning into practice. This book includes: Guidance through day-to-day aspects of directing, including a director’s skillset and tools, script analysis, and rehearsal structure. Advice on collaborating with production teams and actors, building communication skills and tools, and integrating digital media into these practices. Discussion questions and practical worksheets covering script analysis, blocking, and planning rehearsals, with downloadable versions on a companion website. |
| the last night of ballyhoo script: The Gingham Dog Lanford Wilson, 1969 Length: 2 acts. |
| the last night of ballyhoo script: Voir Dire Joe Sutton, 1996 THE STORY: A prominent black man is arrested for buying crack. His lawyer says he was framed, set up by a racist white cop. It is left to a jury of six (as is the case in misdemeanors and many civil cases in New York State), a racially mixed group |
| the last night of ballyhoo script: Desperate Affection Bruce Graham, 1998 THE STORY: Maddie is an actress pushing forty, who specializes in commercials for household products. Happy because she's been dating a great guy, Richard, for the last few months, she is also nervous, sure that he must have a fatal flaw soon to be |
| the last night of ballyhoo script: The Ladies of the Camellias Lillian Groag, 1996 THE STORY: An hilarious farce about an imagined meeting in Paris, 1897, between the famous theater divas Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse. The two actresses--who were the biggest and most temperamental stars of their day--were scheduled to perform b |
| the last night of ballyhoo script: The Staring Match Jerry McNeely, 1957 A comedy-fantasy. Two men compete for the position of rainmaker, during a prayer meeting, in a community suffering from drought. |
| the last night of ballyhoo script: Call Me by My Rightful Name Michael Shurtleff, 1961 THE STORY: An honest, moving and courageous drama set in the early 1960s about two Columbia students rooming together in New York: Doug, a white, rebellious, young man; and Paul, an African-American. When the two disagree on their defi-nitions of l |
| the last night of ballyhoo script: Regional Theatre Directory, 2000-01 Jill Charles, 2000-07 |
| the last night of ballyhoo script: Amateurs Tom Griffin, 1991 THE STORY: Following the opening night of the Timberly Troupers' musical about undertakers, Dorothy and her slightly daft husband, Charlie, host a gathering of actors and friends. The chic opening night party is in another part of town, but into Do |
| the last night of ballyhoo script: Theatre World 1996-1997 John Willis, Tom Lynch, 2000-03-01 (Theatre World). Theatre World, the statistical and pictorial record of the Broadway and off-Broadway season, touring companies, and professional regional companies throughout the United States, has become a classic in its field. The book is complete with cast listings, replacement producers, directors, authors, composers, opening and closing dates, song titles, and much, much more. There are special sections with biographical data, obituary information, listings of annual Shakespeare festivals and major drama awards. |
| the last night of ballyhoo script: Identity Papers Helene Meyers, 2011-12-01 Argues that debates about Jewish identity and assimilation are signs of creative potential rather than crisis. Identity Papers argues that contemporary Jewish American literature revises our understanding of Jewishness and Jewish difference. Moving beyond the reductive labeling of texts and authors as too Jewish or not Jewish enough, and focusing instead on narratives that portray Jewish regeneration through feminist Orthodoxy, queerness, off-whiteness, and intermarriage, Helene Meyers resists a lachrymose view of contemporary Jewish American life. She argues that such gendered, sexed, and raced debates about Jewish identity become opportunities rather than crises, signs of creative potential rather than symptoms of assimilation and deracination. Thus, feminist debates within Orthodoxy are allied to Jewish continuity by Rebecca Goldstein, Allegra Goodman, and Tova Mirvis; the geography of Jewish identity is racialized by Alfred Uhry, Tony Kushner, and Philip Roth; and the works of Jyl Lynn Felman, Judith Katz, Lev Raphael, and Michael Lowenthal queer the Jewish family as they reveal homophobia to be an abomination. Even as Identity Papers expands Jewish literary horizons and offers much-needed alternatives to the culture wars between liberal and traditional Jews, it argues that Jewish difference productively troubles dominant narratives of feminist, queer, and whiteness studies. Meyers demonstrates that the evolving Jewish American literary renaissance is anything but provincial; rather, it is engaged with categories of difference central to contemporary academic discourses and our national life. Ultimately, Meyers offers not only nuanced readings of many texts, but also a cogent argument about the generative possibilities for American Jewish futurity through an undoing of what constitutes normative understandings of Jewish bodies, families, and relationships. Journal of Jewish Identities Identity Papers is an important, thoughtful text that will appeal to those with an interest in postmodern inquiries into multiculturalism, identity theory, and selfhood. MELUS This is a sophisticated, nuanced critical study of contemporary Jewish (American) literature Taking an anthropological approach to Jewish and Judaic cultural expression, Meyers provides probing, subtle analyses Highly recommended. CHOICE |
| the last night of ballyhoo script: Full Gallop Mark Hampton, Mary Louise Wilson, 1997 THE STORY: A play based on the life of Diana Vreeland, who stood at the center of American style for five decades. As editor of Harper's Bazaar and Vogue magazines, and as a member of the International Cafe Society, she chronicled the extraordinary |
| the last night of ballyhoo script: American Jewish Year Book 1998 David Singer, 1998 The Library owns the volumes of the American Jewish Yearbook from 1899 - current. |
| the last night of ballyhoo script: A John Steinbeck Encyclopedia Brian Railsback, Michael Meyer, 2006-09-30 One of the greatest novelists of the 20th century, John Steinbeck continues to be read and studied at all levels. This encyclopedia extensively overviews his life and writings. Included are roughly 1200 alphabetically arranged entries by more than 40 expert contributors. Entries cover his works, major characters, family members and contemporaries, influences, and various special topics related to his literary career. Many of the entries cite works for further reading, and the encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography. Known for his searing social criticism, John Steinbeck is one of the most popular and influential American writers of the 20th century. His works are read and studied at all levels and have been made into films. And though critics and scholars initially found fault with his enormously popular works, he is now widely recognizes as a master of his craft. This encyclopedia provides an extensive overview of his life and career and is accessible to high school students, undergraduates, and general readers. Presented are roughly 1200 alphabetically arranged entries by more than 40 expert contributors. These entries cover his works, major characters, family members and contemporaries, influences, and a range of special topics. |
| the last night of ballyhoo script: Historical Dictionary of Contemporary American Theater James Fisher, 2021-07-15 Historical Dictionary of Contemporary American Theater. Second Edition covers theatrical practice and practitioners as well as the dramatic literature of the United States of America from 1930 to the present. The 90 years covered by this volume features the triumph of Broadway as the center of American drama from 1930 to the early 1960s through a Golden Age exemplified by the plays of Eugene O’Neill, Elmer Rice, Thornton Wilder, Lillian Hellman, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, William Inge, Lorraine Hansberry, and Edward Albee, among others. The impact of the previous modernist era contributed greatly to this period of prodigious creativity on American stages. This volume will continue through an exploration of the decline of Broadway as the center of U.S. theater in the 1960s and the evolution of regional theaters, as well as fringe and university theaters that spawned a second Golden Age at the millennium that produced another – and significantly more diverse – generation of significant dramatists including such figures as Sam Shepard, David Mamet, Maria Irené Fornes, Beth Henley, Terrence McNally, Tony Kushner, Paula Vogel, Lynn Nottage, Suzan-Lori Parks, Sarah Ruhl, and numerous others. The impact of the Great Depression and World War II profoundly influenced the development of the American stage, as did the conformist 1950s and the revolutionary 1960s on in to the complex times in which we currently live. Historical Dictionary of the Contemporary American Theater, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1.000 cross-referenced entries on plays, playwrights, directors, designers, actors, critics, producers, theaters, and terminology. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about American theater. |
| the last night of ballyhoo script: Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections Denise L. Montgomery, 2011-08-11 Representing the largest expansion between editions, this updated volume of Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections is the standard location tool for full-length plays published in collections and anthologies in England and the United States throughout the 20th century and beyond. This new volume lists more than 3,500 new plays and 2,000 new authors, as well as birth and/or death information for hundreds of authors. |
| the last night of ballyhoo script: Drama for Students Carole Hamilton, David Galens, 2002-06 Presenting analysis, context, and criticism of commonly studies dramas. |
| the last night of ballyhoo script: New York Magazine , 1997-06-23 New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea. |
| the last night of ballyhoo script: Love is a Time of Day John Patrick, 1970 THE STORY: As is necessary for a pretty girl with her own student apartment, April McGregor has learned to fend off wolves--although she is hard pressed to cope with Skipper Allen, a particularly persuasive graduate student who is convinced that her |
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