Edward Zanni is planning on going to Juilliard, and is anticipating a relaxed, carefree summer when his father decides to remarry and refuses to pay Edward’s tuition. His mother is incommunicado in Peru, communing with the Incan spirits. Edward proves totally incapable of holding a job, and despairs of raising the necessary tuition. What follows is an incredibly hilarious romp through New Jersey and New York in search of the tuition money. Edward and his friends concoct a series of schemes to raise money - ranging from outright theft to embezzlement, money laundering, and blackmail, all against a backdrop of musical numbers from their theatre productions, sexual confusion (Edward is attracted to both his girlfriend Kelly and his best friend Doug, a jock who also stars in ths school musical), and masquerading as a variety of characters to achieve their goals...