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The Importance of Dance in a Musical

I like the way I mean this the way you put it is really good right that the dance number is a response precisely to the confrontation with contradiction within the narrative that they can't they have no way out of so they just turn to dance. The line is more literal because there's all this expression going on both musically and through dance so you that's so that's the that is the the indirection that you normally get in dialogue  that's trying to at least in some minimal way hide the like the bone of what someone is feeling right but in a musical the thing that threads it together is I don't know like a more a much more open I think it's right thing

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