<P> As I think of it now, the song could have been called "Send in the Fools". I knew I was writing a song in which Desirée is saying, "aren't we foolish" or "aren't we fools?" Well, a synonym for fools is clowns, but "Send in the Fools" doesn't have the same ring to it . </P> <P> Judi Dench, who performed the role of Desirée in London, commented on the context of the song during an interview with Alan Titchmarsh . The play is "a dark play about people who, at the beginning, are with wrong partners and in the end it is hopefully going to become right, and she (Desirée) mistimes her life in a way and realizes when she re-meets the man she had an affair with and had a child by (though he does not know that), that she loves him and he is the man she wants ." </P> <P> Some years before the play begins, Desirée was a young, attractive actress, whose passions were the theater and romance . She lived her life dramatically, flitting from man to man . Fredrik was one of her many lovers and fell deeply in love with Desirée, but she declined to marry him . The play implies that when they parted Desirée may have been pregnant with his child . </P> <P> A few months before the play begins, Fredrik married a beautiful young woman who at 18 years old was much younger than he . In Act One, Fredrik meets Desirée again, and is introduced to her daughter, a precocious adolescent suggestively named Fredrika . Fredrik explains to Desirée that he is now married to a young woman he loves very much, but that she is still a virgin, continuing to refuse to have sex with him . Desirée and Fredrik then make love . </P>

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