TV series end in many ways cuts to black, getting off the plane, flash-forwards, and more.
Because we already did the most perfect versions of the songs in the TV show, she notes.
She praises her co-songwriter Jack Dolgen for handling many of the logistics while she was wrapping the series.

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I was involved in picking every song, she says.
The script of the special is credited to me, Jack, and Adam.
We barely had time to make room for our leads to sing songs in 42 minutes, she bemoans.

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We were going to do The Math of Love Triangles, and we just didnt have the production bandwidth.
It would have been sad not to do it.