The show is set in 1953 and centers on the Hay family – George (George Blum) and Charlotte Hay (Sharon Lawson) who are trying to keep their little repertory theatre company in business despite the mounting debt and lackluster sales for their current showings of Cyrano and Private Lives in rep, all while dreaming of making it big in the silver screen. Their daughter Rosalind (Jennifer Duffee) has already given up on the starving career of actors for the more pragmatic career in advertising, and has come to town to introduce her parents to her new fiancé, an extremely neurotically nervous weatherman named Howard (Robert Bryant).

But she picked a really bad time to do it. Before the day is through, Charlotte will find out that George had a one-time fling with younger actress Eileen (with Jeri Harms as an amusingly emotional actress who thinks she is pregnant), Charlotte will threaten to leave with her rich, long-time admirer Richard Maynard (Marcus Allen Correia), old boyfriend and actor Paul (Frank Godinez) will try to steal Rosalind away from weatherman Howard, and Frank Capra will come to town, giving George and Charlotte Hay a rare chance to audition for the next big Hollywood film if they can somehow get their Private Lives in order before Capra arrives.

It’s a long setup, but it's worth it as the show really gets rolling in the second act when the backstage problems spill into onstage problems in a hilarious scene that blends Cyrano with Private Lives and features fantastic comedic work by Sharon Lawson, Jennifer Duffee, Frank Godinez, and a drunken George Blum. No doubt a show that the theatergoers of Buffalo will be talking about for many moons to come.