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For the third of Oscar Hammerstein II's assignments in writing musicals, Sondheim chose to musicalize P.L. Travers' Mary Poppins stories. He spent about a year on the project, writing music, lyrics and libretto, before abandoning it in 1950, feeling that it was too difficult to make a single play out of a group of short stories. Songs from his Mary Poppins include "The Sun Is Blue" and "Tea."
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Assassins is about how society interprets the American Dream, marginalizes outsiders and rewrites and sanitizes its collective history. "Something Just Broke" is a major distraction and plays like an afterthought, shoe horned simply to appease. The song breaks the dramatic fluidity and obstructs the overall pacing and climactic arc which derails the very intent and momentum that makes this work so compelling... - Mark Bakalor
Which is not to say that it is perfect...
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