Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Magnolia Hawks is 18-year-old on family 's show boat, Fact2: Gaylord Ravenal falls in love, Fact3: couple Together with leaves boat and moves to Chicago baby daughter, Fact4: Gaylord is ruining life because of losses, Fact5: Julie LaVerne is forced to leave In parallel plot boat because of background taking Steve Baker with her
Output (English): The musicals story spans about 40 years, from the late 1880s to the late 1920s. Magnolia Hawks is an 18yearold on her familys show boat, the Cotton Blossom, which travels the Mississippi River putting on shows. She meets Gaylord Ravenal, a charming gambler, falls in love with him, and eventually marries him. Together with their baby daughter, the couple leaves the boat and moves to Chicago, where they live off Gaylords gambling winnings. After about 10 years, he experiences an especially bad losing streak and leaves Magnolia, out of a sense of guilt that he is ruining her life because of his losses. Magnolia is forced to bring up her young daughter alone. In a parallel plot, Julie LaVerne the show boats leading actress, who is part AfricanAmerican, but passing as white is forced to leave the boat because of her background, taking Steve Baker her white husband, to whom, under the states law, she is illegally married with her. Julie is eventually also abandoned by her husband, and she becomes an alcoholic. Magnolia becomes a success on the stage in Chicago. Twentythree years later, Magnolia and Ravenal are reunited at the theater in which Kim, their daughter, is appearing in her first Broadway starring role.