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The Last Night of Ballyhoo: Jill Yarbrough |
Taken from The Last Night of Ballyhoo by Alfred Uhry (1996). Rights held by Dramatists Play Service .Contributed by Krista Schwarting. Read by Jill Yarbrough: "I'm playing Sunny Freitag." Jill is a lifelong Alaska resident who has appeared on stage with nearly every theater company in town, including Cyrano's, UAA, Out North, and, of course, Anchorage Community Theater. For more information on how you can see The Last Night of Ballyhoo, you can visit the Anchorage Community Theater web page. |
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The Last Night of Ballyhoo plays at Anchorage Community Theater through January 11. The play takes place in 1930s Atlanta. "That's all we wanted -- to be like everybody else. ... [But] we're not. The summer [after] sixth ... grade my best friend was Vennie Alice Sizemore. And one day she took me swimming at the Venetian Club Pool. Her parents were members. So we were with a whole bunch of kids from our class and the boys were splashing us and we were all shrieking ... and pretending we hated it, when this man in a shirt and tie came over and squatted down by the side of the pool and he said "Which one is Sunny Freitag?" and ... he said I had to get out of the water. And Vennie Alice asked him why and he said Jews weren't allowed to swim in the Venetian pool. And all the kids got very quiet and none of them would look at me.... I got out of the pool and phoned Daddy at his office. When he came to get me all the color was drained out of his lips.... [Vennie Alice and I] stayed friends - sort of. Neither of us ever mentioned it again, but it was always there. So believe me, I know I can't hide being Jewish." |
