Word: ballyhoo
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...perfect combination of James Dean and the boy next door, Paul Rudd graciously greeted me with a big handshake and a warm smile just before curtain call on New Year's Eve. At the Helen Hayes Theatre on Broadway, Rudd was starring in The Last Night of Ballyhoo, a touching Alfred Uhry drama that gracefully blends stirring romance, witty one-liners and meaningful reflection in the story of a Southern family grappling with their American-Jewish identity in the 1930s. Personable and startlingly down to earth, Rudd is the rare exception in ego-dominated Hollywood...
...resident, Rudd may soon find a walk in the park to be more like a fan frenzy. Already idolized by millions of female Clueless fans, Rudd is soon to be a universally household name. With his role as Alicia Silverstone's brotherly beau in Clueless, his romantic lead in Ballyhoo, and now his star turn opposite Jennifer Anniston in The Object of My Affection, Rudd proves that, even in Hollywood, sometimes nice guys finish first...
...take the role in Ballyhoo...
...Last Night of Ballyhoo Alfred Uhry's comedy-drama could have been written in the 1950s, but that doesn't make its old-fashioned virtues any less appealing. The story of a Jewish family in Atlanta in 1939 has a keen sense of its milieu, raises tough issues of Jewish anti-Semitism and goes for honest sentiment, not sentimentality...
...especially grating moment involves a little exchange between Cap'n Andy, the proprietor of the Cotton Blossom, and the wise slave Queenie in which the latter, in response to Andy's grumbling that the balcony seats aren't selling, asks him "What about colored folks?" and launches into a ballyhoo aimed exclusively at said "colored folks." However, both Gretha Boston, who won a Tony award for her performance as Queenie, and Andre Solomon-Glover as Queenie's husband Joe, establish considerable presence that prevents their characters from being altogether marginalized. Toward this end as well, Joe's (and the show...