Vanities, A New Musical

About the show

The entire musical takes place in between 1963 and 1990 with the high school scenes taking place in 1963, college scenes taking place in 1968, the penthouse scenes taking place in 1974 and the epilogue taking place in 1990. Three best friends journey through high school, college and their professional life, as they remember all their adventures. Joanne is a sweet, naive southern girl, Mary is very confident and Kathy is the planner. In high school, they are the popular cheerleaders and are planning all the social events. They go to college and plan to live together. They end up all in the same sorority, Kappa Kappa Gamma. Joanne gets married and becomes extremely conservative. Mary opens an art gallery and explores sexual liberation. Kathy ends up living the high life in New York City and reads all the books she was supposed to read in college, "they are so much better than the cliff's notes." They end up fighting when they meet at Kathy's fabulous apartment in New York. Joanne gets drunk in response and talks about how she never has a break from her kids and Ted never lets her drink. However, at a funeral, they all make up and they end as they started, three best friends.