A Pinch for Peachy

Elaine Tharpe gives Houston Sanders’ face a little pinch on stage last week during rehearsals for “The Last Night of Ballyhoo.” Tharpe plays Boo Levy and Houston, Peach Weil.

The comedy by Alfred Uhry, who wrote “Driving Miss Daisy,” takes place in Atlanta in 1939. Levy is a widowed sister in the Freitag family of German Jews. She’s got her eye on Weil, whose from one of the finest Jewish families in the South. The Greenwood Little Theatre production will be staged at 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at W.M. Whittington Jr. Playhouse. Season tickets, $25 each, and one-performance tickets, $15, will be available at the door. Kackie Kornfeld is the director.

Ray Stewart gives a little demonstration involving set construction.