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re: To try to answer you a bit more fully

Posted by:	JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 04:58 pm EDT 09/11/14
In reply to:	re: To try to answer you a bit more fully - AlanScott 04:16 pm EDT 09/11/14

Perhaps Desiree has a type and that type is men who are unavailable. And that would probably work out fine for a woman who is dedicated almost solely to her career. One of my favorite aspects of this story is watching two characters, who are very entrenched in their well-established lives and patterns, let go of who they thought they were and what they thought they wanted. Desiree comes to this rather quickly, but Fredrik hangs onto his outdated sense of himself almost until the very end. These are deeply unhappy people, but, because their unhappiness is a result of making choices and choosing what they thought they wanted, they don't even realize how unhappy they are until the events of the story push them together again. So much of the Sondheim canon is about making choices and the consequence of those choices once they're made. This show is just one more example. I'm glad that Fredrik and Desiree get the second chance at happiness that many Sondheim characters do not.

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Very eloquent (nm)

Posted by:	AlanScott 05:19 pm EDT 09/11/14
In reply to:	re: To try to answer you a bit more fully - JereNYC 04:58 pm EDT 09/11/14

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