Muny's '42nd Street' Is an Avenue of Joyous Experience: Review
Story: Aspiring performer Peggy Sawyer arrives from her home town of Allentown, Pennsylvania just a few minutes after auditions have been held for legendary Broadway director Julian Marsh’s latest extravaganza, Pretty Lady. It’s 1933 and America, including Marsh, is in the throes of the Great Depression.
Peggy is frustrated at missing her opportunity, but brash young tenor Billy Lawlor, who sees her arrive, tries to finagle a way for her to meet Marsh. Although that fails, sympathetic writer Maggie Jones and some chorus girls invite Peggy to lunch. When Marsh witnesses an impromptu dance routine by Peggy and the chorines he makes room for one more dancer.
