From Debutante Balls to Delancey Street, this hilarious and timely new-fashioned musical reboots the greatest hits of Berlin, Gershwin, Kern and more in a fresh, new romantic comedy set at the dawn of the first all-American art form: Popular Music. MY BABY reboots the greatest hits of Berlin, the Gershwins and many more; weaving their updated classic songs into a hilarious, new-fashioned musical-comedy for all ages. It’s 100 years ago on Tin Pan Alley and MICKEY McKEE, a cocky Irish kid from the Bowery, sells sheet music on street corners to scratch out a living (PLUGGER’S PROLOGUE). Mickey dreams writing the next big hit tune - only he can’t write a note until he meets BETTY GOLD, an orphaned Jewish sweatshop worker, who happens to be a musical demon. Betty and Mickey team up to make beautiful music (PLAY A SIMPLE MELODY), a song Mickey swears will sell a million, saving Betty and her sisters from the dual threats of gangster JOHNNY GIOVANNI, and land-baron STANFORD J. Betty is reluctant to buy into Mickey’s millionaire dreams (I’M ALWAYS CHASING RAINBOWS), but when she lose her job at the trouser factory, she puts on the pants she once sewed to become BUDDY, hit the streets, and make a living plugging songs like the boys (A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND). Betty’s disguise fools everyone including gangster Giovanni (OH, JOHNNY, OH!), but when Buddy bests Mickey in a fierce Plug-Off (JA-DA), and is crowned new King of the Pluggers, an intense rivalry ensues (SOME OF THESE DAYS). Clueless that his best girl and worst foe are the same person, Mickey is tricked by fate into making beautiful music with Buddy, improvising a waltz (ALICE BLUE GOWN) to debut at the Debutante Ball of mogul TIERNEY’s precious granddaughter, ALICE. At the Upper East Side Ball, romantic farce ensues: Mickey woos Betty, Alice pursues Buddy, and young JUNIOR TIERNEY, home from Yale, falls for Betty’s plain, hardworking sister FRANCES. Romance fizzles fast when the Jewish Gold sisters are discovered at the restricted club, forcibly removed from the premises, and the curtain falls on a Debutante Ball in ruins. Act Two opens with Mickey and Junior Tierney waking a sleeping neighborhood, to apologize to Bety and Frances (HELLO! Junior is banished from the Lower East Side by his furious grandfather and mistaken identity causes Mickey to conclude Betty will never love him because she’s fallen for Buddy (I DON’T CARE)! Things go from bad to worse when Giovanni threatens Mickey and Buddy’s lives (BALLIN’ THE JACK); they must write a new song (MY BUDDY), Junior must deliver the Gold girls an eviction notice, and Frances must convince the neighborhood to occupy Delancey Street (AIN’T WE GOT FUN). Facing heartbreak and homelessness, all decide THERE’LL BE SOME CHANGES MADE. Junior runs away, Tierney enjoins Giovanni to torch the tenement. Mickey risks all to save Buddy, and Buddy saves the day, revealing “his” true identity (YOU MADE ME LOVE YOU). Mickey sees Betty for who she as love conquers all, the kids save the neighborhood, new songs are published and a crackerjack tune brings everyone together in a good old-fashioned sing-along (HELLO!
