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That fidelity ties down the actors, who each have to deliver a performance really close to someone elses.
The choices all curve back toward homage rather than expanding or complicating the original thing.
Thats where the songs, theoretically, could come in.
They stick like cooked spaghetti in your memory while everything new slides right off.
The song succeeds as comedy, but the show doesnt dig deeper into her psyche from there.
The second-act reprise of the number is brief and remains lyrically vague.
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