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- Two death-row murderesses develop a fierce rivalry while competing for publicity, celebrity, and a sleazy lawyer's attention.
- By rehearsal number four, many of the cast members are finding it difficult to prepare for the show while attending to their other life commitments, such as school and work. And the addition of an unexpected and fast paced musical number, "The Jitterbug" - which was originally in the 1939 movie, but which was eventually cut from the final version - shows many of the cast members that they are woefully out of shape and that this show will require them to be fitter than they are presently. This issue concerns Sarina, who doesn't want her cast of characters looking uncomfortable to the audience. Michael O., who is fit and active in his life, faces a slightly different issue: he is stiff as a board in all aspects of his being, which is opposite from the light feline movements required to play the Cowardly Lion. Sarina hopes that Aku's uncle may be able to assist in that matter. Meanwhile, Taz still is considering removing herself from her currently cast role, until other cast members come to the rescue. And Sarina still has one more role to cast: Toto, for which she plans on using a real dog. If she can't find an appropriate one, she may have to move onto Plan B. Sarina has yet one more task: to find a venue to stage the show, which may be a problem due to lack of available and affordable space in the city.
- With five weeks until the show, Sarina is perhaps now the most stressed of anyone involved with the production as she has to arrange all the technical aspects of the show, including costumes, makeup, sets, lighting, and a venue, all on a very limited budget, which means the help of family and friends who will get paid nothing. Despite having one hundred fifty costumes to produce, Gail, with her team, seem to have issues under control. The sets are another matter, which will be built by Sarina's son and nephew, Quentin and Miles, who seem unmotivated and unsure about what they should do to get the job done. She also has mixed feelings about holding the performance at The Music Hall. She loves the actual theater and its location, but the state of the renovations and lack of back stage change areas scare her. She does manage to hire a stage manager who vows she can handle a cast who will probably be freaking out on performance day. And Sarina brings in former pro wrestler Torpedo Tony to choreograph a fight scene. Sarina has ulterior motives for bringing him in: he is her father, and she, who didn't see him much when she was growing up, has always wanted to work with him and show him what she does for a living. With the cast, Sandra tests her witch impersonation out on unsuspecting children on Halloween. Jodi begins to fall into the Taz camp of feeling overwhelmed and wondering if she should bow out of the production. On the other extreme, Michael M., who wanted a lead role but didn't get one, is relishing his experience as the lead chorister, which perhaps provides him with a greater variety of acting challenges. He, who has no professional actor friends, asks for advice from Sarina about if he has the chops to actually work in the performing arts for a living.
- It's two days before show time, and the cast moves from the comfort of their church basement to the 1,100 seat Danforth Music Hall, where the show will be performed. While Sarina and her volunteer crew move the equipment, sets and costumes from the church to the theater, an ill Bailey, who has come down with the flu, takes the cast to Rick's house to do a speed reading, just to ensure that everyone knows their lines. They then move to the theater for a quick run through of certain scenes, this experience which will be their first on the actual stage, which is much smaller than they anticipated and much smaller than the sprawling church basement to which they are used. The stage size may pose a challenge when all fifty-one cast members are on stage at the same time, most specifically during the munchkin scene. With one day left to go, even one more task has to be accomplished, namely the design and printing of the playbill, the former task which has fallen on the shoulders of Siobhan, Michael M. and Matt, the latter who also comes up with a signature cocktail for the post-cast party. This evening, the cast and crew go through their one and only full dress rehearsal at the theater. But what can go wrong, does. What is a two hour show takes over four hours to run through. Among the many problems is that the dressing room tent, which is located outside, is leaking in the pouring rain, getting the cast and costumes wet. And as nerves start to fray, comments, especially ones by Sandra and Michael O., make Sarina even more on edge. They all just hope that the old adage of a bad dress rehearsal leading to a great performance will be true. But Sarina is concerned that these frayed nerves will lead to the cast not connecting with each other, and thus losing the magic at tomorrow night's performance.
- It's show time, the culmination of eight weeks of hard work by the cast and creative team. The theater is sold out, resulting in $25,000 toward Sarina's charity, Big Little Caravan of Joy, which provides creative arts camps to Canadian aboriginal children and orphaned children in Africa. The cast and creative team have a mixed bag of emotions just before the curtain goes up from excitement to fear to nervousness. Sarina and Sheila designed the show so that all the cast members would have their moment in the spotlight. As the show progresses, each cast member does get their moment, the reaction from their respective friends and family at that time which are shown, some of who had no idea what that moment in the spotlight was going to be. The cast members are also shown reflecting on their own personal eight week journey associated with the show.