Obupani gledališki producent Max Bialystock in kreativni računovodja Leopold Bloom se domislita nenavadne finančne prevare. Če poiščeta veliko investitorjev za odrsko predstavo, ki ne bo pritegnila nobenih gledalcev, nihče ne bo slutil, da predstava prinaša dobiček. Zmago zavohata, ko najdeta scenarij za muzikal, ki nosi naslov »Hitlerjeva pomlad« in poveličuje nacizem. Pri produkciji zaposlita najslabše kadre in maneta roke nad največjo polomijo vseh časov. Njuni načrti gredo po zlu, ko se polomija izkaže za uspešnico!
Riggan Thomson je nekdanji hollywoodski zvezdnik, znan po filmski upodobitvi superjunaka Birdmana. S točke daleč od vrhunca uspeha se sedaj poskuša vrniti na prizorišče z ambiciozno broadwajsko predstavo. Upa, da se bo s to tvegano potezo uveljavil kot polnovredni umetnik. Kmalu pred premiero predstave pa se začnejo kopičiti težave, saj se eden izmed igralcev med vajami poškoduje v čudni nesreči. Namesto njega najamejo igralca Mika Shinerja, ki zagotavlja uspeh, a v projekt prinese kopico osebnih ekscentričnosti. Bolj ko se bliža premiera, bolj negotov je Riggan, ki je v projekt za povrh vložil vso svojo osebno in poklicno verodostojnost ...
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.
After putting together another Broadway flop, down-on-his-luck producer Max Bialystock teams up with timid accountant Leo Bloom in a get-rich-quick scheme to put on the world's worst show.
It's five years later and Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest challenger yet - making it as a dancer on the Broadway stage.
After failing to make it on Broadway, April returns to her hometown and reluctantly begins training a misfit group of young dancers for a competition.
A group of dancers congregate on the stage of a Broadway theatre to audition for a new musical production directed by Zach. After the initial eliminations, seventeen hopefuls remain, among them Cassie, who once had a tempestuous romantic relationship with Zach. She is desperate enough for work to humble herself and audition for him; whether he's willing to let professionalism overcome his personal feelings about their past remains to be seen.
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.
Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him - his obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life, and only his bottles of pills keep him going.
A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star.
After young playwright, David Shayne obtains funding for his play from gangster Nick Valenti, Nick's girlfriend Olive miraculously lands the role of a psychiatrist—but not only is she a bimbo who could never pass for a psychiatrist—she's a dreadful actress. David puts up with the leading man who is a compulsive eater, the grand dame who wants her part jazzed up, and Olive's interfering hitman/bodyguard—but, eventually he must decide whether art or life is more important.
A teenage girl living in Baltimore in the early 1960s dreams of appearing on a popular TV dance show.
Actor Lester Blaine has all but landed the lead in Myra Hudson's new play when Myra vetoes him because, to her, he doesn't look like a romantic leading man. On a train from New York to San Francisco, Blaine sets out to prove Myra wrong...by romancing her. Is he sincere, or does he have a dark ulterior motive?
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.
A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.
Lavish biography of Flo Ziegfeld, the producer who became Broadway's biggest starmaker.
A failed Broadway singer who now works as a production manager must save opening night on his new production by wrangling his eccentric cast and crew.
Swellegant and elegant. Delux and delovely. Cole Porter was the most sophisticated name in 20th-century songwriting. And to play him on screen, Hollywood chose debonair icon Cary Grant. Grant stars for the first time in color in this fanciful biopic. Alexis Smith plays Linda, whose serendipitous meetings with Porter lead to a meeting at the alter. More than 20 of his songs grace this tail of triumph and tragedy, with Grant lending is amiable voice to "You're the Top", "Night and Day" and more. Monty Woolley, a Yale contemporary of Porter, portrays himself. And Jane Wyman, Mary Martin, Eve Arden and others provide vocals and verve. Lights down. Curtain up. Showtune standards embraced by generations are yours to enjoy in "Night and Day."
The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. When Eddie meets Queenie, he soon falls in love with her—but she is already being courted by Jock Warriner, a member of New York high society. Queenie eventually recognizes that, to Jock, she is nothing more than a toy, and that Eddie is in love with her.
Maggie, a headlining comedienne with the Follies, takes a fall off the stage into the orchestra pit and lands on the drum of musician Al Cassidy. One thing leads to another, they fall in love and get married. Al becomes a famous songwriter and Maggie stays home and has children. One day Al is hired to write a big number for Selma Larson, one of the Follies' most beautiful stars, and falls for her.