Love Is Afoot! is a musical romantic comedy set in the 1940s. It follows the lives and struggles of lovebirds Joe and Rose Marie, who are kept apart due to what society deems an unacceptable love- for feet! Through song and dance, they learn about the importance of love, acceptance, and staying true to oneself.

SYNOPSIS:

Imagine if "Singing in the Rain" had been written and directed by John Waters.

"Love is Afoot!" is a musical romantic comedy that explores what discrimination looks like from the knee down in the 1940s. A foot/shoe fetish musical!

At its core, Love Is Afoot! is a love story about two childhood sweethearts and their struggle to be together. We tell this story through the eyes of Joe Smoot-Nibley and his journey for love and acceptance. He’s a hopeless romantic in love with the girl of his dreams… and more specifically, her sweet feet. That girl is Rose Marie Pedals, and it was love at first sniff the moment they met as toddlers on the playground sliding board.

Rose Marie is beautiful inside and out. She adores Joe and understands his desires because she actually has her own “thing” for feet plus she’s obsessed with shoes- lots of shoes. But because it’s a forbidden love and being from different economic and social classes they are pulled apart again and again.

Giving in to pressures from her peers and family, Rose Marie ends up unhappily married to the rich, popular jock leaving Joe to settle down with a true beast of a woman named, Millie Liskusky who treats Joe like dirt. Millie’s only redeeming quality is the extra digit on each of her oversized feet. But twelve toes aren’t enough to make up for the ten that got away.

Joe takes a job at a sock-factory working for Millie's abrasive, stubby little father, Mr. Liskusky. Joe is excited to be working with "digits" until he learns that the digits he'll be working with are numbers in accounting. Years pass by and everybody's miserable.

It's through help and sage advice from a magical Italian shoe cobbler, Luigi Belmonte, and through song and dance that they all learn about the importance of acceptance, love and staying true to oneself!