Story– In 2002, Christine McPherson is a senior at a Catholic high school in Sacramento, California. She gives herself the nickname “Lady Bird” and longs to attend a prestigious college in “a city with culture” despite her family’s financial struggles, while her mother Marion often tells her that she is ungrateful for what she has.
Lady Bird decides to spend her last Thanksgiving before graduation with Danny’s wealthy family instead of her own. After the opening night of the musical, their relationship ends when Lady Bird and Julie discover their boyfriends kissing one another in a bathroom stall.
