half baked thought here but something about “the desert” from giant being a mirror opposite of “if i loved you” from carousel
this love song is NOT conditional, babey!! no young people feeling out the parameters of their relationship in real time here, no sir! instead we have an old married couple learning how to finally communicate!! 10+ minutes straight of top-drawer musical theatre songwriting effortlessly weaving in and out of dialogue!!
god i love musical theatre wtf ever!!!!!
on one end we have “if… i loved you” at the beginning of the musical, on the other we have “if… i make it to 70” at the end of the musical.
something something!!! it’s half baked.













