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Start: Bargains, Buddy. That’s the way t...

Phyllis Rogers Stone

Follies

James Goldman Stephen Sondheim

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Gender
Female
Playing Age
Adult, Mature Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act One
Time & Place
The historic Weismann Theatre, New York City, Evening, 1971,
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Musical
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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Start: Bargains, Buddy. That’s the way to get through. One makes bargains with one’s life. That’s what maturity amounts to.

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End: He was so tender touching it, and when he kissed me there, one found it difficult to breathe. I thought it answered everything, but these things pass, and I have thirty thousand dollars worth of Georgian silver in my dining room.

For full, extended monologue see:
Goldman, James, and Stephen Sondheim. Follies. Random House, 1971. pp. 42 - 43.

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