Clare Rose Presents “The Last Night At Ballyhoo”

October 18, 2009

PATCHOGUE, NY October 19, 2009 The Clare Rose Playhouse, a community theatre located on the Long Island Campus of St. Josephs College, will continue its 2009-10 season with The Last Night of Ballyhoo, a comedy written by Alfred Uhry. The show will run November 6 - 22, 2009.

The Last Night of Ballyhoo showcases the Freitags, a Jewish family living in 1939 Atlanta who is torn apart and brought back together as the world changes around them but, their focus remains on attending a social event, Ballyhoo. Alfred Uhry is most famed for writing the play Driving Miss Daisy that was adapted into a film. He is also the first playwright to win a Tony Award, an Academy Award and a Pulitzer Prize for his work.

Individual tickets for this show are priced at $15; $12 for students and seniors. Show times are 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays and 3 p.m. on Sundays. For more information, please call the box office at 631.654.0199.

The Clare Rose Playhouse, which serves as a major teaching facility for the Colleges Theater courses, is accessible via the South Service Road of Sunrise Highway, just east of Exit 52 (Waverly Avenue) in Patchogue, on the northeast corner of the campus of St. Josephs College. A former cottage converted in 1985 through the generosity and guidance of the man for whom it is named, the Playhouse serves as a major teaching facility for the Colleges theater courses and a training ground for young actors. The Playhouse is the site of community theater productions of musicals, dramas, comedies, cabaret acts, musical performances, dance troupes and comedians.