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* ButchLesbian - Fran.

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* TheEighties

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* TheEightiesTheEighties: Act 2 takes place entirely in this decade, ending in the present (at the time) of 1988, and shows Heidi's increasing disillusionment with the shallowness and retreat of feminism in this era.
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* TheSeventies
* TheSixties

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* TheSeventies
TheSeventies: The rest of Act 1 is spent in this era, emphasized by Heidi joining the Feminist Movement.
* TheSixtiesTheSixties: The first two scenes takes place during this time period, with the first in middle of the decade to emphasize Heidi's innocence, with pop songs like "The Shoop Shoop Song" playing, and the second in 1968 during the Eugene [=McCarthy=] campaign, showing Heidi's political awakenings coinciding with meeting Scoop.
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* StrawFeminist - Good God, everywhere.

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* GirlbossFeminist: Heidi's longtime friend Susan Johnston, once a feminist sheepherder at a radical women's health and legal collective during the 1970s, has by the 1980s taken a job as an executive of a television production company that "wanted someone with a feminist and business background". She arranges a luncheon with her friend only to pitch her a TV show idea she wants Heidi to come work as a consultant for. Heidi is left disillusioned by her friend, and by the trajectory of feminism in general [[note]] The play was first produced in 1988, so in many ways, its critiques of girl boss feminism predate the term. [[/note]], after this meeting. Downplayed since she's never abusive, but is portrayed as shallow and self-absorbed, and has been this way since before she became a Girlboss.
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** Scoop is in journalism. Go figure. Lampshaded by Scoop himself in the scene where he and Heidi first meet

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** Scoop is in journalism. Go figure. Lampshaded by Scoop himself in the scene where he and Heidi first meetmeet.
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* BabiesEverAfter - The ending seen is with Heidi and her newly adopted Panamanian baby

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* BabiesEverAfter - The ending seen is with Heidi and her newly adopted Panamanian babybaby.



* ButchLesbian - Fran
* CampGay - Peter can be this; it depends on the production, of course but his singing the "Shoop Shoop" song and his rather theatrical diction would seem to lean towards this interpretation

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* ButchLesbian - Fran
Fran.
* CampGay - Peter can be this; it depends on the production, of course but his singing the "Shoop Shoop" song and his rather theatrical diction would seem to lean towards this interpretationinterpretation.



* EvilFormerFriend - Not exactly evil, but Susan is a shallow, flighty, self absorbed person who turns her back entirely on her ideals and seems to be the personification of the aspects of feminism that Heidi feel disillusioned with

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* EvilFormerFriend - Not exactly evil, but Susan is a shallow, flighty, self absorbed person who turns her back entirely on her ideals and seems to be the personification of the aspects of feminism that Heidi feel disillusioned withwith.



* SlapSlapKiss - Her relationship with Scoop is something like this
* SouthernBelle Scoop's wife Lisa
* StrawFeminist - Good God, everywhere
* TitleDrop - Heidi's friend Susan says something to the affect of "I've missed the Heidi chronicles", meaning that she and Heidi don't talk enough
* WillTheyOrWontThey - Scoop and Heidi. It ends up with him marrying Lisa

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* SlapSlapKiss - Her relationship with Scoop is something like this
this.
* SouthernBelle Scoop's wife Lisa
Lisa.
* StrawFeminist - Good God, everywhere
everywhere.
* TitleDrop - Heidi's friend Susan says something to the affect of "I've missed the Heidi chronicles", meaning that she and Heidi don't talk enough
enough.
* WillTheyOrWontThey - Scoop and Heidi. It ends up with him marrying LisaLisa.
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* HighPoweredCareerWoman: Susan becomes this by the end of the play as a media executive. This is portrayed negatively as the sort of self-serving feminism that makes Heidi feel abandoned by the movement.
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''The Heidi Chronicles'' is a 1988 play eritten by Wendy Wasserstein, which won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

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''The Heidi Chronicles'' is a 1988 play eritten written by Wendy Wasserstein, which won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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Written by Wendy Wasserstein, it won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

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Written ''The Heidi Chronicles'' is a 1988 play eritten by Wendy Wasserstein, it which won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.



It was made into a TV movie in the early 90's starring Creator/JamieLeeCurtis.

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It was made adapted into a TV movie MadeForTVMovie in the early 90's 1995 starring Creator/JamieLeeCurtis.
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* YourCheatingHeart - Scoop rather indiscreetly cheats on his wife Lisa
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* MeaningfulName - Scoop is in journalism. Go figure. Lampshaded in that Heidi comments on his ridiculous name when they first meet

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Scoop is in journalism. Go figure. Lampshaded by Scoop himself in that the scene where he and Heidi comments on his ridiculous name when they first meetmeet
** Peter mentions reading ''Heidi'' while working late at the hospital and asks Heidi (Holland) if she's reached the second half of her journey where she uses what she's learned on her life's travels.
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* BabiesEverAfter - The ending seen is with Heidi and her newly adopted Asian baby

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* BabiesEverAfter - The ending seen is with Heidi and her newly adopted Asian Panamanian baby
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* {{Gayngst}} - sort of with Peter toward the end of the play. He's understandably pretty angsty about the fact that tons of his friends are dying due to the AIDS crisis, though he himself is not infected.

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* {{Gayngst}} - sort Sort of with Peter toward the end of the play. He's understandably pretty angsty about the fact that tons of his friends are dying due to the AIDS crisis, though he himself is not infected.



* EvilFormerFriend - not exactly evil, but Susan is a shallow, flighty, self absorbed person who turns her back entirely on her ideals and seems to be the personification of the aspects of feminism that Heidi feel disillusioned with

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* EvilFormerFriend - not Not exactly evil, but Susan is a shallow, flighty, self absorbed person who turns her back entirely on her ideals and seems to be the personification of the aspects of feminism that Heidi feel disillusioned with



* SlapSlapKiss her relationship with Scoop is something like this

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* SlapSlapKiss her - Her relationship with Scoop is something like this



* StrawFeminist - Good god everywhere

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* StrawFeminist - Good god God, everywhere
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!! Tropes
* BabiesEverAfter - the ending seen is with Heidi and her newly adopted Asian baby
* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter - see above

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* BabiesEverAfter - the The ending seen is with Heidi and her newly adopted Asian baby
* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter - see See above



* MeaningfulName Scoop is in journalism. Go figure. Lampshaded in that Heidi comments on his ridiculous name when they first meet

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* MeaningfulName - Scoop is in journalism. Go figure. Lampshaded in that Heidi comments on his ridiculous name when they first meet



* WillTheyOrWontThey Scoop and Heidi. It ends up with him marrying Lisa
* YourCheatingHeart Scoop rather indiscreetly cheats on his wife Lisa

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* WillTheyOrWontThey - Scoop and Heidi. It ends up with him marrying Lisa
* YourCheatingHeart - Scoop rather indiscreetly cheats on his wife Lisa
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It was made into a TV movie in the early 90's starring JamieLeeCurtis.

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It was made into a TV movie in the early 90's starring JamieLeeCurtis.
Creator/JamieLeeCurtis.
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Written by Wendy Wasserstein, it won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

The plot follows Heidi Holland from high school in the 1960s to her career as a successful art historian more than twenty years later. The play's main themes deal with the changing role of women during this time period, describing both Heidi's ardent feminism during the [[TheSeventies 1970s]] and her eventual sense of betrayal during the [[TheEighties 1980s]]. Though most of the characters are women, there are two important male characters; Peter Patrone, a gay pediatrician who is arguably Heidi's best friend, and Scoop Rosenbaum, a magazine editor who marries and has many affairs, and with whom Heidi has a tense friendship.

It was made into a TV movie in the early 90's starring JamieLeeCurtis.

!! Tropes
* BabiesEverAfter - the ending seen is with Heidi and her newly adopted Asian baby
* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter - see above
* ButchLesbian - Fran
* CampGay - Peter can be this; it depends on the production, of course but his singing the "Shoop Shoop" song and his rather theatrical diction would seem to lean towards this interpretation
* ComingOutStory - Peter comes out to Heidi when she's in town protesting an art exhibit.
* {{Gayngst}} - sort of with Peter toward the end of the play. He's understandably pretty angsty about the fact that tons of his friends are dying due to the AIDS crisis, though he himself is not infected.
* TheEighties
* EvilFormerFriend - not exactly evil, but Susan is a shallow, flighty, self absorbed person who turns her back entirely on her ideals and seems to be the personification of the aspects of feminism that Heidi feel disillusioned with
* MeaningfulName Scoop is in journalism. Go figure. Lampshaded in that Heidi comments on his ridiculous name when they first meet
* TheSeventies
* TheSixties
* SlapSlapKiss her relationship with Scoop is something like this
* SouthernBelle Scoop's wife Lisa
* StrawFeminist - Good god everywhere
* TitleDrop - Heidi's friend Susan says something to the affect of "I've missed the Heidi chronicles", meaning that she and Heidi don't talk enough
* WillTheyOrWontThey Scoop and Heidi. It ends up with him marrying Lisa
* YourCheatingHeart Scoop rather indiscreetly cheats on his wife Lisa
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