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William Goldman had adapted his 1969 novel The Thing of It Is for the screen, and Sondheim contributed the song "No, Mary Ann." The screenplay was about a Broadway composer who takes his wife on a second honeymoon to try and rekindle their marriage. However, everywhere the couple goes, they hear the composer's hit song from his show, "No, Mary Ann." Sondheim has likened the song in the screenplay to "Hello, Dolly," describing it as "The big hit song from the big hit show that you can't get away from." The film was never produced.
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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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