The Last Night of Ballyhoo written by Alfred Uhry for the 1996 Olympic Games, is a play infused with comedy set in Atlanta, GA in 1939. Uhry already well known for his previous Academy Award and Pulitzer Prize winning play Driving Miss Daisy, explores the lives of a German-Jewish family living in the southern Christian neighborhoods of Atlanta. Last Night of Ballyhoo brings forth important social issues while also incorporating comedy for an enjoyable yet eye-opening story of the Freitag/Levy joint Jewish household living in the South in the late 1930s.