Play It by Ear (The Festival)
by Bella Spewack, Samuel Spewack

THE STORY: Tells of Sally Ann Peters, a young piano teacher whose knowledge of life is entirely academic.

Sally Ann appears in the Los Angeles home of Max Granada, a sophisticated and charmingly unscrupulous impresario, in an effort to fire him with some of her own enthusiasm for a young pupil of hers, who she claims is a child prodigy.

Granada will have none of her until he finds a way of using her for his own purposes.

He is frantically trying to get his chief client, a famous Pianist, to go to Mexico to participate in a festival there, and Sally Ann finds herself involved in the plot to get the pianist off for his concert.

At the end she has learned a great deal about herself, accomplished her mission, and has conquered the impresario.

A highly amusing play for groups interested in producing sophisticated comedy.