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Among them is a notification from the Amateur Athletic Union of the revoking of her amateur status, dashing her hopes for a future Olympics and ending her career with the insurance company.Īt the all-male New York Press club, the reporters are discussing this change in Babe's fortunes, and the conflict between Grantland and Gallico erupts again. She and her sister sing a duet about Babe's "downtown engine with an uptown chassis," before Babe begins to open her fan letters. Babe responds with a reprise of "Winnin'" and the loser sings a heartbreaking ballad, "No Next Tme."īabe's victories continue to mount, as she arrives home in a brand new Dodge roadster. Down on the field, the women on her team are aware that she cheated, and they confront Babe. The second act opens at the 1932 Olympics with the explosive chorus number of athletes in "Olympic Gold." The hurdles event is announced, and Babe ostensibly wins. The contestents for the Miss Carnival Queen school their classmate about the proper roles for women in their pageant-walking extravaganza "The Girls Who Walk the Fine Line." She celebrates with an exuberantly athletic rendition of her theme song, "Winnin'." Her victory is short-lived, and at the Winter Carnival Dance, she discovers that the principal has overruled her coach, and that the only arena for women's competition is the beauty competition. Mildred "Babe" Didrikson has just won a spot on the Beaumont High football team as a place kicker. The show opens with legendary sportswriter Grantland Rice narrating a brief history of these prejudices in "Proclamation for Women Athletes," and the curtain rises on Babe's bedroom in Beaumont. and a truckdriver's daughter from Beaumont, Texas, with the dream of becoming the greatest woman athlete in the world was going to have to prove herself.
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In 1929, the world of professional sports belonged to men. winning so big you bring all your competitors along with you to rewrite the rules of the game! Taking the risk to focus on a butch lesbian woman, Carolyn Gage has given us all a gift of female courage and tenacity…” - Twin Cities Daily Planet, MN.īabe! is a musical about winning.
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Girls who love sports and women of all ages who aspire to greatness will be inspired.
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This very entertaining play has humor, drama, and a wonderful lesbian love story built around the larger-than-life (and very American) character of Babe Didrikson. “Jill Higgins’s music, with Gage’s lyrics, fulfills musical theater’s aim of driving the plot while having real substance.