1937 Babes in Arms plot sketch

1.1 Val’s house

Vaudeville opening bits (adults practicing)

Bus arrives, takes parents away

Billie arrives, homeless

Val and Billie in love WHERE OR WHEN

Sheriff will send kids to work farm w/o parents

Billie encourages Val to put a show on

BABES IN ARMS

1.2 Legion Meeting room

We’ll put on a show

Meet racist snob Lee

Gus and Dolores were in love

I WISH I WERE IN LOVE AGAIN

Marshall sees Gus moving in, fights

Sheriff breaks up fight, more “let’s put on a show”

Sheriff gives one week

BABES IN ARMS reprise

1.3 Clubhouse

Two black kids discuss Lee’s racism

LIGHT ON OUR FEET tap number

1.4 Lee’s house

Lee will fund, but no blacks in show

Val jealous of Billie and Lee possibility

Baby Rose shows up, introduces self

WAY OUT WEST ON WEST END AVENUE

1.5 Val’s House

Val and Billie working it out, Val will put on show

MY FUNNY VALENTINE

1.6 Old Red Barn

intro Lee Calhoun’s Follies

JOHNNY ONE NOTE by Baby Rose

Lee finds black kids in show

DANCE NUMBER interrupted by Sheriff and Lee

END ACT ONE

ACT ONE HAD 2 large numbers, 2 love duets, 2 awesome solos, and dance number

2.1 Work Farm

IMAGINE (dream of a better world)

Life is tough on work farm

ALL AT ONCE (Billie and Val)

Sheriff will let kids visit Val’s House

Subplot: communist wins lotto, now capitalist

IMAGINE reprise

2.2. Val’s House

THE LADY IS A TRAMP (referring to Billie’s lifestyle of travel)

YOU ARE SO FAIR (Gus to Dolores)

French flier’s plane crashes at Val’s

Val poses as flier, pushes the kid show

THE LADY IS A TRAMP reprise

2.3 Val’s House

flier comes to, realizes Val impersonated him

2.4 Legion Meeting room

Billie cuts of flier as he complains with

LIGHT ON FEET spotlight

She interrupts again to introduce

IMAGINE spotlight

And Billie also introduces

THE LADY IS A TRAMP spotlight

Flier says it’s all okay, let’s see the show!

FINALE (Babes in Arms)

BOWS (Johnny One Note)

EXIT (Where or When)

END ACT TWO

ACT TWO HAD IMAGINE, 2 love duets, and lots of spotlights