Beauty World
is the first Musical in S'pore to be performed by actors and actresses
from the Television Corporation Of Singapore. It starred Evelyn Tan as
the lead actress and Darren Lim as the lead actor. A host of other stars
are also included in this production such
as Sharon
Au, Kok Chieng Mun, Jack Neo and Irin Gan. The story is about how a young
girl, Ivy Chan Boh Zhu, from Batu Pahat, who found out on her 20th birthday
that she was actually adopted by her foster mum and she was handed a Beauty
World jade pendant which was left to her by her father. Armed with the
jade pendant, she decided to go to S'pore, to look for her father and Beauty
World. She found her penpal, Rosemary Joseph and despite Rosemary's objection,
Ivy decided to work as a cabaret girl in Beauty World. It was there that
she met Ah Hock, a good-hearted gangster who had grown up in Beauty World.
With Ah Hock's help, Ivy was able to get to work as a cabaret girl in Beauty
World.It was then that she met Lulu. The most popular and the most evil
cabaret girl in Beauty World. Lulu disliked Ivy the first time she saw
her and swear that she will have a hard time at Beauty World.

Ivy was taught
the ropes of becoming a cabaret girl by three kind-hearted cabaret girls,
Daisy, Lily and Rosie. But troubles was to arise soon when Ivy's boyfriend
Frankie Wong Fei Hong came to S'pore to look for her.But to Frankie's dismay,
he couldn't find her at Beauty World and end up finding Rosemary. Meanwhile
at Beauty World, Lulu was thinking of spiking Ivy's drink as Towkay Tan
was interested in Ivy and was willing to pay Lulu to help him to spike
Ivy's drink. They succeeded. But this was all saw by Wan Choo, the servant
at Beauty World who told Ah Hock about it. Just when
Towkay Tan
was about to undress Ivy, Ah Hock rushed in and saved Ivy from the evil
cluthes of Towkay Tan. It was then that Ah Hock found out that he had fallen
for Ivy but he dare not tell her about it for fear that Ivy may look down
on him. Meanwhile, at Rosemary's home, Frankie and Rosemary was both waiting
anxiously for the return of Ivy. Through chatting with Frankie, Rosemary
found out that Frankie was actually a great guy and began to fall in love
with him. Rosemary then decided to look for Sergeant Muthu to help look
for the missing Ivy. Sergeant Muthu, together with Frankie and Rosemary
went to Beauty World to look for Ivy but to no avail. It was then that
Ivy shows up with Ah Hock and pointed out that Towkay Tan had try to offend
her on the other night. It was then that Johnny Quek, owner of Beauty World
shows up and told Ivy that he had specially made five Beauty World jade
pendants and had given them to four people. The first one was mummy of
Beauty World, the second one, Towkay Tan, the third one, Towkay Neo and
the fourth one to Lulu. It was then that both Lulu and Ivy found out that
they were actually mother and daughter and Ivy's father was actually a
Japanese soldier but he could not be found after the war and Lulu had no
choice but to give Ivy up. Ivy was shocked to find out that her mother
was actually Lulu and decided to return back with Frankie to Batu Pahat
leaving the heart-broken Ah Hock and Lulu. Ivy and Frankie got married
at Batu Pahat and lived happily ever after while Lulu quitted from Beauty
World and joined the Salvation Army. But all was back to usual at Beauty
World where the songs still play and the drinks still flow.
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