This 1997 Tony award winner for best play by the author of Driving Miss Daisy is a warm family comedy-drama. It’s December 1939 in Atlanta, Georgia. "Gone with the Wind" is having its world premiere, and Hitler is invading Poland, but Atlanta's elitist German Jews are more concerned with who is going to Ballyhoo, the social event of the season. Especially concerned is the Freitag family: bachelor Adolph, his sister, Boo, and their sister-in-law, Reba. Beulah is determined to have her dreamy, unpopular daughter, Lala, attend Ballyhoo, believing it will be Lala's last chance to find a socially acceptable husband. Adolph brings his new assistant, Joe Farkas, home for dinner. Joe is Brooklyn born, and worse, of Eastern European heritage – several social rungs below the Freitags, in Boo's opinion. Matters get worse when Joe falls for Reba's daughter, Sunny. Will Boo succeed in snaring a member of one of the finest Jewish families in the South for Lala? Will Sunny and Joe avoid the prejudice that stands in their way? Will Lala ever get to Ballyhoo? The family gets pulled apart and then mended together with plenty of comedy, romance and revelations as the characters are forced to face where they come from and who they really are.
 

Susan S. Porter as
Reba Frietag