In Disney’s madcap musical comedy about a body-swapping mother and daughter, Ellie is a feisty sixteen-year-old trying to assert her independence. Katherine is a stressed mum who can’t understand her stubborn teenager. There’s a big confrontation when Katherine won’t allow Ellie to join “The Hunt”, an all-night scavenger quest. When they both angrily wish each other could see things her way, the power of an hourglass causes them to magically switch bodies. Now they must spend the day in each other’s shoes while they hunt down the matching hourglass so they can change back to their true selves. This is an hilarious, contemporary update of the classic story, in which a mother and daughter see what it means to be a family while experiencing each other’s lives firsthand, if only for a day.

Book by Bridget Carpenter Music by Tom Kitt
Based on the novel Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers