 At the Davis School of the Theatre, ran by Jeremy Taswell (Samuel S. Hinds), where teen-age kids study drama and the serious arts, instructors Johnny Hanley (Robert Paige) and Alice Taswell (Elyse Knox) are in love. The students, including Donald (Donald O Connor), Patricia (Gloria Jean) and Peggy (Peggy Ryan), secretly want to become singers. Patricia s aunt, Mrs. Davis (Florence Bates), owns the school and disapproves. Donald has written a musical comedy for the year s class play, which the students want to do, but Mrs. Davis has selected and insists they do Sophocles  "Antigone". Taswell agrees to let the kids do Donald s show. Donald manages to keep Mrs. Davis away on the day of the show, and when Broadway producers in attendance rave about Donald s play, she becomes a backer.