 Lucy is very excited about her first foray into Manhattan since the Ricardos moved to the suburbs. They and the Mertzes have tickets to see the smash Broadway musical,  The Most Happy Fella.  that evening. Ricky admonishes Lucy to not forget the tickets and double checks that she has everything in order. He s traveling into New York with Fred, who spends the entire day at his apartment building, collecting his rent. When Lucy and Ethel arrive at a Manhattan restaurant, awaiting their husbands, Lucy discovers the tickets were for the matinée. This begins a series of mishaps -- Fred entrusts Ethel with the rent money and he puts $500 cash in her purse, the performance is a sell out, but Ricky manages to get only two tickets. When it s decided that the ladies will see the First Act, Lucy and Ethel sneak back in and try to see the remainder of the show, and to add to the confusion, in her enthusiasm, Lucy manages to knock Ethel s handbag into the orchestra seating downstairs. All is settled, but in the end, the two couples manage to see very little of the performance, amid all of the confusion.