It’s Bobbie’s 35th birthday party, and all her friends keep asking, Why isn’t she married? Why can’t she find the right man and isn’t it time to settle down and start a family? As Bobbie searches for answers, she discovers why being single, being married, and being alive in 21st-Century New York could drive a person crazy.

第一次世界大后，齐格飞富丽秀的女明星范妮.普莱斯（Fanny Brice）在纽约监狱门外等待丈夫尼基.阿恩斯坦（Nicky Arnstein）被释放，此时她回想起两人共同生活的点点滴滴。
范妮是犹太后裔，出身于社会底层，但富有喜剧天赋和表演才华，她投身表演事业，最开始因为容貌不出众而屈才于群舞团，但她的独特魅力逐渐展现，成为颇具影响力的喜剧演员，同时她的动人歌喉使她成为百老汇巨星。她结识了企业家尼基.阿恩斯坦，两人相爱并闪电结婚。范妮的声望与日俱增，但尼基事业遭遇困难，他求助于赌博，但因此债台高筑遭到逮捕。
故事结尾，尼基从监狱出来，两人决定分手，但是范妮知道她将永远爱他。

Wiletta Mayer, an African American actress of a certain age, has spent her career playing stereotypes, trapped on a merry-go-round of mammies, maids, and other menials. The curtain rises on the first day of rehearsal for Chaos in Belleville, a Broadway-bound play that tackles the harsh truths of racism in America. But when those truths spill out of the play and into the rehearsal hall, will Wiletta’s insistence on her dignity cost her the work she desperately needs?