Nightie Night

About the show

Prologue (A Pullman car traveling to New York from Washington, D. C. Noon.) Trixie and Billy are on the same train; him returning from a tryout to his wife of one year, and she going to a new acting job on Broadway. Trixie teases Billy about throwing her over for his new wife. She then confesses her impulsive second marriage to Jimmie Blythe, and of his abandonment of her when he discovers she was married before. Billy agrees that Jimmie is a hothead, his temperament not improved by long years making his fortune in South America. Trixie wheedles Billy into promising to tell Jimmie that she is a stage actress with a baby, which she also neglected to reveal before the ceremony. She then passes her broken bracelet, Jimmie's wedding present, to Billy, so he can have it fixed. Unknown to them, Ernestine has witnessed this last exchange. (Two-minute Curtain); Act I (Living room of the Moffat's apartment. That evening.) Act II (Same as Act I. The next morning.) Act III (The Moffat's kitchen. The next second.)