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* ValuesDissonance: Jenny's PrecociousCrush on Alex was arguably far less controversial when the original novella was published in 1955 than in the late 1980s. This likely contributed to Jenny's AgeLift from 13 to 15 at the show's end.
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* ValuesDissonance: Jenny's PrecociousCrush on Alex was arguably far less controversial when the original novella was published in 1955 than in the late 1980s. This likely contributed to Jenny's AgeLift from 13 to 15 at the show's end.end.
** Her age was then put up to 18 for the 2023 West-End revival.
** Her age was then put up to 18 for the 2023 West-End revival.
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* TooBleakStoppedCaring: The first thing the audience sees is George's funeral, at which a cynical, sadder-but-wiser Alex has ended up paired with Guilietta. Now that we already know the DownerEnding, we spend the next two hours finding out that it is the result of a bunch of amoral mid-century bohemians selfishly ruining each other's lives over the course of twenty years, and that it could very easily have turned out a lot worse for all of them.
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: A musical about open marriage, bisexuality, incest, and borderline statutory rape is going to be a hard sell to any audience. It isn't all that surprising that more conservative American audiences in the 1980s didn't warm to it.
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* ValuesDissonance: Jenny's PrecociousCrush on Alex was arguably far less controversial when the original novella was published in 1955 than in the late 1980s. This likely contributed to Jenny's AgeLift from 13 to 15 at the show's end and - coupled with more conservative attitudes towards the free love atmosphere among the main characters - to the show's complete failure on Broadway.
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* ValuesDissonance: Jenny's PrecociousCrush on Alex was arguably far less controversial when the original novella was published in 1955 than in the late 1980s. This likely contributed to Jenny's AgeLift from 13 to 15 at the show's end and - coupled with more conservative attitudes towards the free love atmosphere among the main characters - to the show's complete failure on Broadway.end.
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* ValuesDissonance: Jenny's PrecociousCrush on Alex was arguably far less controversial when the original novella was published in 1955 than in the late 1980s. This likely contributed to Jenny's AgeLift from 13 to 15 at the show's end and - coupled with more conservative attitudes towards the FreeLove atmosphere among the main characters - to the show's complete failure on Broadway.
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* ValuesDissonance: Jenny's PrecociousCrush on Alex was arguably far less controversial when the original novella was published in 1955 than in the late 1980s. This likely contributed to Jenny's AgeLift from 13 to 15 at the show's end and - coupled with more conservative attitudes towards the FreeLove free love atmosphere among the main characters - to the show's complete failure on Broadway.
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* ValuesDissonance: Jenny's PrecociousCrush on Alex was arguably far less controversial when the original novella was published in 1955 than in the late 1980s, likely contributing to Jenny's AgeLift from 13 to 15 at the show's end and to the show's complete failure on Broadway.
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* ValuesDissonance: Jenny's PrecociousCrush on Alex was arguably far less controversial when the original novella was published in 1955 than in the late 1980s, 1980s. This likely contributing contributed to Jenny's AgeLift from 13 to 15 at the show's end and - coupled with more conservative attitudes towards the FreeLove atmosphere among the main characters - to the show's complete failure on Broadway.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Rose for George and Vincent/Hugo for Rose: cases of HasAType or ReplacementGoldfish for George's late wife Delia and Alex respectively?
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Rose for George and Vincent/Hugo for Rose: cases of HasAType or ReplacementGoldfish for George's late wife Delia and Alex respectively?respectively? Neither play nor novella make it clear.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Rose for George and Vincent/Hugo for Rose: cases of HasAType or ReplacementGoldfish for George's late wife Delia and Alex respectively?
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Rose for George and Vincent/Hugo for Rose: cases of HasAType or ReplacementGoldfish for George's late wife Delia and Alex respectively?
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* ToughActToFollow: As Lloyd Webber's first show after ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'', it tends to be overshadowed.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Rose for George and Vincent/Hugo for Rose: cases of HasAType or ReplacementGoldfish for George's late wife Delia and Alex respectively?
* ToughActToFollow: As Lloyd Webber's first show after ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'', it tends to beovershadowed.overshadowed.
* ValuesDissonance: Jenny's PrecociousCrush on Alex was arguably far less controversial when the original novella was published in 1955 than in the late 1980s, likely contributing to Jenny's AgeLift from 13 to 15 at the show's end and to the show's complete failure on Broadway.
* ToughActToFollow: As Lloyd Webber's first show after ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'', it tends to be
* ValuesDissonance: Jenny's PrecociousCrush on Alex was arguably far less controversial when the original novella was published in 1955 than in the late 1980s, likely contributing to Jenny's AgeLift from 13 to 15 at the show's end and to the show's complete failure on Broadway.
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* ToughActToFollow: As Lloyd Webber's first show after ''Theatre/ThePhantomOftheOpera'', it tends to be overshadowed.
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* ToughActToFollow: As Lloyd Webber's first show after ''Theatre/ThePhantomOftheOpera'', ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'', it tends to be overshadowed.
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* ToughActToFollow: As Lloyd Webber's first show after ''Theatre/ThePhantomOftheOpera'', it tends to be overshadowed.
