Original Commentary
Of course, You Say it First starts where Unlike Minerva ends.

Modern Commentary
In Unlike Minerva, Brisbane and the cast lived and worked in The Minerva Theatre, a vaudeville establishment theatre. So the sequel starts with the theatre being dismantled.
The overarching theme of You Say it First as a whole is tearing down the past to build yourself a future. It started there and it ended there. We didn't know where it was going when we started it, so it worked out nicely- Terrence