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Flapper!
Original Production

Script Cover
Music Bill Francoeur
Lyrics Bill Francoeur
Book Tim Kelly

Flapper! is a musical that is set in the 1920s and focused around the main character, Polly Pepper. It is focused on Polly's 18th birthday, when she will inherit the "Ice Garden", a precious necklace.

[edit] Plot Lines

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

It is a week from Polly Pepper's birthday and she will receive the "Ice Garden" a beautiful diamond necklace. She had been in New York just prior to her arrival and she had a "more than extraordinary" trip. She is revealed to be a flapper. She then meets with her "posse" and discusses the events. They agree she is very lucky. She has also made a new boyfriend, Buck Wayne. She is living with her Aunt in Southampton, New York. She prepares for her birthday, but at the last minute she receives a telegram from Mr. Flo Ziegfeld. Mr. Ziegfeld was famous in the 1920s for his wonderful chorus girls and the shows they put on. Her boyfriend takes her on his plane to New York and she makes it back just in time. She celebrates her birthday but at the end is criticized by her longtime enemy, Susan Stuyvesant-Fish, who says the necklace is glass. She then agrees and says that it is in a vault at the Chase Manhattan Bank. She foils the plans of two different groups of con-men and mobsters. She lives happily ever after.

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Characters

Buck Wayne is a pilot who loves to go on trips and he also loves Polly. It is not specified where he is from but he is from Texas, Arizona, or New Mexico.

Tommy and Jimmy are also some main friends of Polly that are boys.

Tweedles, Bunny, Winnie, and Daisy are also friends of Polly that are girls.

Muggs O'Toole and Cheater Hayes are two bumbling gangsters working for:

Mona Schlumpgarden: Owner of a speakeasy who had recently been down on her luck and hassled by the cops.

Lenny Knickerbocker: The character that tries to break the world record for flagpole sitting but decides to give up.

[edit] Songs

  • Happy Days are Here Again
  • Ev'rybody Charleston (Radio Show)
  • Flapper
  • Stocks and Bonds
  • Ev'rybody Charleston (Crazy Cat Nite Club)
  • The Roaring Twenties
  • You're Making History Today
  • Ev'rybody Charleston
  • It Has to be Jazz
  • It Has to be Jazz (Reprise)
  • Gee, You're Swell
  • Dijja Ever?
  • Mona's Moaning Low
  • Flapper (Reprise)
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