Starring Debbie Allen as Lydia Grant, Lee Curreri as Bruno Martelli, Erica Gimpel as Coco Hernandez, Albert Hague as Professor Shorofsky, Carlo Imperato as Danny Amatullo, Carol Mayo Jenkins as Elizabeth Sherwood, Valerie Landsburg as Doris Schwartz, P.R. Paul as Montgomery MacNeill, Gene Anthony Ray as Leroy Johnson, Lori Singer as Julie Miller, Carmine Caridi as Angelo Martelli

Teacher Lydia Grant's former boyfriend lines her up for the lead in an off-Broadway musical he's directing. The audition will be a mere formality, he promises. Against all school rules, however, student Coco Hernandez also auditions. Her arrival poses a professional dilemma for Lydia, and Coco is bitterly hostile; but both of them have to face the hard reality of casting in show business.