Article: Songs that stole our souls. (song 'Dream Lover')

"I think we all have this little theater on top of our shoulders, where the past and the present and our aspirations and our memories are simply and inexorably mixed," Dennis Potter told film critic Michael Sragow in 1975. Potter, who died in 1994, was the writer of such untouchable TV and movie musicals as Pennies From Heaven and The Singing Detective. His work was about building that little theater, or revealing it. In his musicals people don't just break into song - old songs descend on them like visitations, and the songs break them. For as long as it takes them to sing it, a song makes them more alive, more expressive, than ordinary speech could ever let them dare be. ...

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