Original Broadway Cast of Follies & Michael Bartlett &
Original Broadway Cast of Follies & John McMartin & Dorothy Collins
Original Broadway Cast of Follies
Original Broadway Cast of Follies & &
John McMartin
Dorothy Collins
Original Broadway Cast of Follies & Mary McCarty
Yvonne De Carlo
Original Broadway Cast of Follies & Dorothy Collins & John McMartin
Gene Nelson (Actor)
Original Broadway Cast of Follies & Justine Johnson & Victoria Mallory
Alexis Smith
Original Broadway Cast of Follies & Harvey Evans & Kurt Peterson & & & Dorothy Collins & Gene Nelson (Actor)
Original Broadway Cast of Follies & Gene Nelson (Actor) & &
Dorothy Collins
Alexis Smith
Original Broadway Cast of Follies & John McMartin
This antique waltz was written for the 1971 Broadway musical Follies. In it, a former chorus girl who’s now confined to a wheelchair sings a duet with her younger self and parts from her past.
[HEIDI]
One more kiss before we part
One more kiss and farewell
Never shall we meet again
Just a kiss and then
We break the spell
One more kiss to melt the heart
One more glimpse of the past...
[HEIDI & YOUNG HEIDI]
One more souvenir of bliss
Knowing well that this
One must be the last
Dreams are a sweet mistake
All dreamers must awake
[YOUNG HEIDI]
On then with the dance
No backward glance
Or my heart will break
Never look back
[HEIDI]
Never look back
One more kiss before we part
[YOUNG HEIDI]
Not with tears or a sigh
[HEIDI & YOUNG HEIDI]
All things beautiful must die
[YOUNG HEIDI]
Now that our love is done
[HEIDI]
Lover, give me
[HEIDI & YOUNG HEIDI]
One
More kiss and—goodbye
One More Kiss was written by Stephen Sondheim.
One More Kiss was produced by Dick Jones.
From Sondheim’s Finishing the Hat:
This was the first song I wrote for Follies. … I thought that a love song in Heidi’s operetta style, with its lush music and overripe lyrics, would be the easiest challenge. I chose Sigmund Romberg and Rudolf Friml, the leading operetta composers of the post-World...