| Living in Chicago on the wrong side of the tracks, 14-year-old Rose dreams of becoming the first black Irish step dance champion. When she finds a teacher and begins to win contests, an Irishman tries to stop her. |
| BLACK IRISH ROSE features a Chicago teen-age girl who dreams of becoming the first black Irish step dance champion. The story, based in part on a novel I co-wrote with Juanita Mathews, combines the fun of the "Little Rascals" with the "Cosby Show," laid
over music and dancing, with characters like Rose, Ryan Quinn, Ernest, Big Mama, and Marquitta Mae Queasenberry.
No other sitcom has this combination or this type of cultural diversity. In the pilot script, Rose meets her Irish step dance teacher, while her mother tries to keep Rose's brother from eating her entry in the church tomato-growing contest. Besides the pilot script, the bible includes both brief and extended character descriptions, details about the franchise, guides for 12 episodes, directions the story will take over five years, and Schirmer's bio. |