Zaza is embarrassed by the unusual life she and her family of actors leads, until a friend helps her regard it as wonderfully exotic rather than weird.
Briefly describes various careers with a theater, including those of playwright, actor, lighting designer, musical director, stage manager, publicity director, house manager, and costume designer.
In the early years of the twentieth century, Peggy and her cousins Harry and Jack experience the excitement of belonging to a family of famous actors as they prepare to open a new theater with a family production of an original play.
Annabel is offered a part in a real play; however, she is less than excited about her canine costar, pink bunny pajama costume, and heckles from her arch enemy, Lowell Boxer.
As the daughter of the strong-willed director of her town's annual Shakespeare festival, fourteen-year-old Portia fears she can never escape theater, although she keeps trying to convince her stubborn father that she has no desire to become an actress.
