musicals trump novels, plays, and screenplays because of their songs. Songs are the perfect solution; they allow the audience inside a character’s head to examine his thoughts and emotions. This is true regardless of how weird, happy, angry, awestruck, nervous, cunning, dopey, defeated, clueless, etc., a character may be. Music and lyrics can express a wide range of emotions while simultaneously expanding our understanding of the characters and moving the story forward. Miraculously, songs do so in the most palatable, enjoyable way possible. And it makes no difference if songs are soft, sweet,
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