NiteLifeExchange **** J’s Cultural Arts Theatre (JCAT) is proud to present The Last Night of Ballyhoo by Alfred Uhry (Driving Miss Daisy) as part of JCAT’s 11th season at the Michael-Ann Russell JCC in North Miami Beach, Florida. Running from March 14-25, 2018, The Last Night of Ballyhoo is directed by JCAT’s Artistic Director, Michael Andron. Set Design is by Violet Battat, Lighting Design by Zachary Pitchman & Costume Design by Carole Barou-Mootoo. Sound Design & Original Music is by Daveed Ben-Arie. Lillian Andron stage manages.
The Last Night of Ballyhoo, written by the author of Driving Miss Daisy, is a Tony Award winning play that once again explores the lives of Jews in the American south. It is December of 1939, Gone with the Wind is having its world premiere & Hitler is invading Poland, but Atlanta’s upper-crust Freitag family is much more concerned with who is going to Ballyhoo, Atlanta’s Jewish cotillion & the social event of the season. The ensuing comedy proves both hilarious & thought-provoking as it touches on themes of assimilation, anti-Semitism & change.
Featured in The Last Night of Ballyhoo are Debbie Bekefi, John Ferry, Carla Zackson Heller, Anna Schulman, James Stage, Maya Tzur & David Vega.
ALFRED UHRY (Playwright) is an American playwright & screenwriter. He has received an Academy Award, two Tony Awards & the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for dramatic writing for Driving Miss Daisy, the first part of his Atlanta Trilogy. The Last Night of Ballyhoo is the second part of the trilogy, for which he won the Tony Award. The third of the Trilogy is the musical Parade, which also earned Uhry a Tony, as well as one for composer Jason Robert Brown.
MICHAEL ANDRON (Director) Michael is the Founding Artistic Director of JCAT. A true renaissance man, Michael is an ordained Mohel, a Tai Chi Grand Master & 7th Degree Black Belt, yoga adept & a researcher/practitioner in holistic medicine, as well as a theatre practitioner for the past 45 years. Prior to his founding JCAT, Michael ran the Hillel Community Theatre at the Samuel Scheck Hillel Community Day School (1988-2007), serving as Artistic Director for over 50 productions in 20 years. He is director of Kodesh Center, a non-profit foundation for personal growth, Body-Mind-Energy Development & Jewish Mindfulness Training. He is co-author – with his son Ben – of The Essential Guide to Energy Healing from Penguin/Alpha Books, which is available at all book outlets & as an eBook. He appeared in the long running, off-Broadway production of The Fantasticks.
J’s CULTURAL ARTS THEATRE (JCAT) (Producer) is celebrating its 11th season & has a reputation as a top-notch Youth & Community theatre. JCAT is also home to JCAT-Pro, an Equity professional company whose World Premiere production of Broken Snow, garnered a Carbonell Award nomination for playwright Ben Andron. Artistic Directors, Michael & Lillian Andron, received the South Florida Theatre League’s REMY Award for Outstanding Contribution to Community Theatre. JCAT, the J’s Cultural Arts Theatre, is the performing theatre of the Michael-Ann Russell JCC, a year-round program for youth, teens & adults, where participants are part of a magical world of theatre, with a full season of productions, theatre camps & a wide range of classes & workshops in acting, improvisation & technical theatre. JCAT is committed to challenge, enlighten, educate & entertain its audiences through its multi-tier program.
DATES: Wednesday, March 14 – Sunday, March 25, 2018
Wednesday & Thursday @ 7pm, Sunday @ 2pm & 7pm
LOCATION: JCAT Space @ the Michael-Ann Russell JCC
18900 NE 25th Avenue, North Miami Beach, FL (mature themes & language – PG 13
TICKETS: Advance: $25 ~ $15 (seniors/full-time students) At the Door: $30 ~ $18 (seniors/full-time students)
RESERVATIONS: (866)-811-4111 https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/28215
INFORMATION: www.jcctheatre.com (305)-932-4200, ext. 150
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