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Young Phyllis and Young Ben have hopes for the future (" You're Gonna Love Tomorrow "), as do Young Buddy and Young Sally (" Love Will See Us Through ").

Buddy then appears, dressed in " plaid baggy pants, garish jacket and a shiny derby hat ", in a vaudeville routine with an imaginary Sally and his old girlfriend Margie (" The God-Why-Don't-You-Love-Me Blues ").

Sally appears next, dressed as a torch singer singing of her passion for Ben from then-and her obsession with him now (" Losing My Mind ").

Phyllis reflects on the two sides of her personality, " juicy " Lucy — the young Phyllis, naive but passionate, and " dressy " Jessie — Phyllis's jaded, well-groomed present self (" The Story of Lucy and Jessie ").

Ben begins to offer his devil-may-care philosophy (" Live, Laugh, Love "), but stumbles and anxiously calls to the conductor for the lyrics, as he frantically tries to keep going.

Ben becomes frenzied, while the dancing ensemble continues as if nothing was wrong.

Amidst a deafening discord, Ben screams at all the figures from his past and collapses as he cries out for Phyllis.