Merrily takes a look at the perfect idealistic threesome who intend to improve the world, and yet cannot manage to maintain their friendship. It was better, Charley. We both know it. But we're not the three of us any more. Now we're one and one and one.
Nothing's the way that it was.
I want it the way that it was God knows, things were easier then. On the way it never ever was. The musical ends on a most positive moment when three begin their quest, and since the plot structure moves in reverse, the audience knows the end. Act one explores the world of workaholic George Seurat who is so obsessed with painting that he cannot acknowledge his love for Dot or the existence of his child. He does, however, dedicate himself to creating new art despite ridicule from critics.