NEXT SHOW: All Aboard for Broadway

South Side Cultural Arts participants MUST register on-site at

701 South Andrews Avenue, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33319

THE STORY

New York, 1917. Florence Zweibach is putting on a Broadway show, and lots of hopeful girls long to be part of the Florry Dorry Girls of 1918. On the way to the audition, Mary Conklin, a sweet, budding ingenue, meets Harry Harrigan, a down-and-out Tin Pan Alley tunesmith, and the romantic sparks start to fly.

Harry has never made a dime peddling his songs, so he owes the Delaney Sisters, two feisty loan sharks, two hundred dollars for his piano. Harry dodges them by enlisting in the war that’s just broken out in Europe, leaving Mary behind with just a portfolio of sheet music and dream of what might have been.

Flo Zweibach changes Mary’s name to Gracie Parker and features her in his patriotic revue, Yankees Away. Much to the chagrin of his fiancee, Billie Fine, Zweibach falls in love with his new Broadway star. The revue is a big flop until Mary pulls out a song that Harry wrote, and soon a new show, Grand Ol’ Flag, is a Broadway smash hit.

Harry is wounded and returns from the trenches to discover he’s a celebrated songwriter and he and Mary are blissfully reunited. The fireworks explode like the Fourth of July in this All-American backstage musical featuring the songs of George M. Cohan including, “ I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy,” “Over There,” “Give My Regards to Broadway,” “Harrigan,” “Mary’s a Grand Old Name” and many more!