Vocals for Vince (voice)
The lead singer of an oldies group reminisces about the good ol' days and a potential comeback.
Singer
Hollywood movers and shakers dissect their own personal lives when everything seems to clash together.
Original Music Composer
A married man meets a beautiful woman and they begin an affair.
Dutch's Thug
In the year 1935, a teen named Billy Bathgate finds first love while becoming the protégé of fledgling gangster Dutch Schultz.
Murray
An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife, while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated by another woman.
Music
In the 1950s, three young sorority women re-assess their values in light of the burgeoning civil rights movement.
Original Music Composer
'Pleasantly plump' teenager Tracy Turnblad achieves her dream of becoming a regular on the Corny Collins Dance Show. Now a teen hero, she starts using her fame to speak out for the causes she believes in, most of all integration. In doing so, she earns the wrath of the show's former star, Amber Von Tussle, as well as Amber's manipulative, pro-segregation parents. The rivalry comes to a head as Amber and Tracy vie for the title of Miss Auto Show 1963.
Lew Elson
A television newswoman picks up the story of a 1960s rock band whose long-lost leader — Eddie Wilson — may still be alive, while searching for the missing tapes of the band's never-released album.
New Studio Executive
While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.
Television Producer
Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
Prof. La Plano
This is the story loosely based on Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed, who introduced rock'n'roll to teenage American radio audiences in the 1950s. Freed was a source of great controversy: criticized by conservatives for corrupting youth with the "devil's music"; hated by racists for promoting African American music for white consumption; persecuted by law enforcement officials and finally brought down by the "payola" scandals.