Life Goes On - Season 1 - Eps 4: Break a Leg, Mom
An episode showcasing the singing talents of Patti LuPone. A Tony winner for the musical ""Evita"", actually centers around Corky, for whom nothing seems to be going right. First, he has an accident in driver's ed. Moreover, he's not doing well in his remedial arithmetic class, and if he doesn't pass a minimum-competency test he won't be able to stay in the mainstream program. What really gets to Corky, though, is the uneasy feeling that his mom gave up a promising show-business career because he came along. As it happens, Libby has a chance for a comeback of sorts, at the community college's ""Autumn Follies"". She wants no part of it. And Corky doesn't want to take arithmetic tutoring with kids ten years younger than himself. But they work out a deal: he'll take the tutoring if she auditions for the show.
About Life Goes On

Title: Life Goes On
First Air Date: 1989-09-12
Last Air Date: 1993-05-23
Status: Ended
Rating: 6.4/10 (from 25 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 4
Total Episodes: 83
Network: ABC
Genres: Drama, Family
Production Companies: Unknown
Synopsis
Life Goes On is a television series that aired on ABC from September 12, 1989, to May 23, 1993. The show centers on the Thatcher family living in suburban Chicago: Drew, his wife Elizabeth, and their children Paige, Rebecca, and Charles, who is known as Corky. Life Goes On was the first television series to have a major character with Down syndrome.
Cast

Bill Smitrovich
Andrew "Drew" Thatcher

Patti LuPone
Elizabeth 'Libby' Thacher

Chris Burke
Charles "Corky" Thatcher

Kellie Martin
Rebecca 'Becca' Thacher

Chad Lowe
Jesse McKenna

Tracey Needham
Paige Thatcher

Monique Lanier
Paige Thatcher

Elizabeth Berkley
Selena

Josh Lucas
Dylan

Andrea F. Friedman
Amanda Swanson