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The composer of Total Eclipse of the Heart went on to use that song and several others of his almost exactly (but with German lyrics, sometimes translated, sometimes new) for a musical [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_of_the_Vampires_(musical...

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Jim Steinman (that composer) wrote a musical called "The Dream Engine" as his senior thesis at Amherst. It leans heavily on the idea of the defilement of youth. After that he tried to create a rock musical based on Peter Pan. Virtually everything he did after that was a reworking of the ideas from those efforts. It's as if he spent his whole career trying to perfect that one theme of defying mortality.

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