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One More Kiss

Follies, pastiche, and the poetics of parting

Aug 31, 2025
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In Follies, memory is never simple. It is tender and cruel, consoling and destructive, both gift and curse. That complexity comes into focus in “One More Kiss,” the very first number Sondheim wrote for the show.

“One More Kiss” achieves the remarkable feat of being at once the most traditional-sounding number in Follies and one of its most psychologicall…

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