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This musical is a parody of The Bad Seed, Gypsy, All About Eve, and a host of other shows.
The booklet doesn't provide a plot summary and I couldn't find a good one on the Internet, so here's the best I could figure out: Wimpy and untalented mother Judy Denmark has a remarkably talented daughter, Tina, who is desperate to perform. Sleazy agent Sylvia St. Croix encourages Tina to audition for the school play, Pippi in Tahiti. Unfortunately, the third grade teacher, Miss Thorn, chooses (probably deliberately) the thoroughly untalented Louise Lerman for the lead, making Tina the understudy. Well, ...Read More
This musical is a parody of The Bad Seed, Gypsy, All About Eve, and a host of other shows.
The booklet doesn't provide a plot summary and I couldn't find a good one on the Internet, so here's the best I could figure out: Wimpy and untalented mother Judy Denmark has a remarkably talented daughter, Tina, who is desperate to perform. Sleazy agent Sylvia St. Croix encourages Tina to audition for the school play, Pippi in Tahiti. Unfortunately, the third grade teacher, Miss Thorn, chooses (probably deliberately) the thoroughly untalented Louise Lerman for the lead, making Tina the understudy. Well, that isn't good enough for Tina, who murders Louise and goes on as Pippi. Meanwhile, Judy discovers that her mother, theatre critic Lita Encore, was actually a Broadway star, Ruth DelMarco. The news turns Judy into Ginger DelMarco, a confident (and talented) Broadway performer.
Tina's heinous act is discovered, and she's sent to the Daisy Clover School for Psychopathic Ingenues. Ginger is wowing them on Broadway, but she's in conflict with Sylvia, who also nurses aspirations of stardom. Sylvia wants to turn the newly freed Tina into the star she should be; and all three vie for the spotlight. Also in the mix is Ginger's assistant Eve, who is attempting to remake herself into Ginger, and Emily Block, a lesbian reporter whose role in the musical I simply cannot figure out (she doesn't have any songs).
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