I Want the Good Times Back (The Little Mermaid)
Ursella is trying to decide how she is to reclaim ownership of the sea from her brother. In order to develop a plan, she thinks like an economist, using backward…
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The Winner Takes It All (Mamma Mia)
The singer, Donna is singing to her one-time romantic partner. In singing “The Winner Takes it All”, she is implying that romantic relationships are a zero-sum game, that one person’s…
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The Speed Test (Thoroughly Modern Millie)
“If you can make sense of my unintelligible patter – then the job is yours and Hudson’s Floor Wax really doesn’t matter”. Mr. Graydon tells this to Millie Dillmont after…
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