A Vegas casino waitress accidentally tripled in size becomes a singing-dancing showroom icon, falls in love with the scientist whose mishap made her a giant, then vows to rescue him when he’s kidnapped by three mutual rivals.

SYNOPSIS:

Act I

COLLEEN COSSITT, a singing-dancing waitress at the Bryson Hotel & Casino, is only 5-foot-4⅜ and rejected for a new showgirl troupe run by ALEXANDRA MAITLAND, a haughty, wealthy widowed ex-dancer. Colleen, who wants to woo her old high school crush, 6-foot-7 "Big" BILL WHITMER, complains about being short to longtime customer, friend and scientist KESWICK FLETCHER, who has a secret solution: A new device, the Resizer, that enlarges living matter. Colleen, once physically abused by her ex TIM WHITMAN, persuades the scientist to boost her to a showgirl-tall 6-foot-2 (15 percent bigger), citing its potential benefits in making women the physical equal of men. But an accident during the procedure instead enlarges Colleen full-blast, tripling her size to 16-foot-1⅛. Her clothes also grow, which leads to a run in her favorite pair of pantyhose. Keswick, feeling guilty over her change and fearful it could kill her, calms the angry giant, sheltering her in his lab (a converted trucking warehouse) as he and aide BELINDA AUSTIN unsuccessfully attempt to reverse her growth. A distraught Colleen earns emotional support from older sister MAUREEN COSSITT, 10-year-old nephew IVAN BLACK (who loves that his aunt is now “fee-fi-fo-fum” size), and best friend FAYE SWITLIK. Aghast at seeing his one-time "little blonde goddess" as a giant, he wants nothing to do with her. Hidden from the public while stuck inside the lab, Colleen gradually becomes comfortable with her enlarged stature.

Act II

Alone one evening, Colleen and Keswick discover they’ve gone from friends to lovers despite their size difference, and each vows to protect the other. ERNEST SANDERSON, the Bryson’s eccentric billionaire owner, tracks down Colleen to fire her for a prolonged leave of absence, but she gently persuades him to keep her on the payroll. Ernest decides to hire her as a showroom headliner for a $1 million salary, and she names Keswick as her manager. After a clumsy debut, Colleen is nearly fired by Ernest (who meanwhile has fallen in love with Maureen), and she publicly apologizes. She becomes a sold-out attraction specializing in ’60s girl-group songs, a gentle giant loved by young and old who holds weekend family matinees. But she fires Keswick and ends their relationship after discovering that he owes $154,000 in gambling debt (including 40 percent interest) to gentlemen’s club owner VITO CORTEZ, who’s secretly a blackmailing mobster. Keswick, who’d earlier spurned his offer to use her show as collateral, is kidnapped. Colleen regrets letting him go, crying in her dressing room.

Act III

Colleen’s pal and Vito’s girlfriend Faye finds Keswick at the mobster’s hideaway and informs the giant, but warns she’s now too big to rescue her boyfriend without endangering him. Colleen learns Belinda has found how to make the Resizer reduce, and is shrunk back to 5-foot-4⅜. A now-disguised Colleen teams with Belinda, Faye and Maureen to save a grateful Keswick while the mobster joins Tim and Alexandra (Keswick’s former benefactor and lover) in pursuit. Following a fight inside the lab, Alexandra orders Keswick at gunpoint to make herself, Tim and Vito giants. Instead, he reduces them to one-third scale, a puny Vito agrees to waive Keswick’s gambling debt, and Colleen warns “tiny Tim” not to abuse the similarly shrunken Alexandra. Learning the revised Resizer can’t restore her, Colleen glumly retires from showbiz and accepts Keswick’s marriage proposal before her farewell show. Closing her career with a love song to him, she bursts out of her new gown as the shrinking effect unexpectedly wears off, reverting to triple size by song’s end. Thrilled to be big again, Colleen tells him if he doesn’t want to marry her now, she’ll understand, but he replies he’ll keep his promise, and she quips she awaits losing her “giant virginity” to him. She announces both her return to performing and their engagement, while Ernest proposes to Maureen for a Cossitt sisters’ double wedding. Keswick gets a call from a Hollywood producer who wants his re-enlarged celebrity fiancee to star in a movie, setting up a potential sequel.

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