In the cast album she sings "Christine, you must have been dreaming, stories like this can't come true. Meg's second verse in "Angel of Music" was changed early on. And they have the Phantom say "Little vixen" instead of "Little viper" in STYDI. They rewrote a verse in Masquerade for the Broadway production, and they also have Carlotta sing in English rather than Italian when ranting in "Notes/Prima Donna". The US and UK version also differs a bit. It seems the libretti are inconsistent on which versions is included of the various songs.
But as an interesting side note, they used the "gawkish girl" for the TOM translations in Denmark. She did excellent work in general, but that one is low. I'll never forgive the translator for adding a hjerte-smerte (equalling "heart-apart" in English) rhyme. Kolde sten og marmorengle er symbol på smerte.įjernt fra alle varme minder som er i mit hjerte. Har jeg søgt det længst forgangne, uden dig at finde. Kneled' ned i år og dage, hæged' om dit minde. I remember the Danish libretto originally had: International translations have used both. But for the last 5 years or so they've used the latter.
Sometimes they re-add the verse "Three long years I've knelt in silence" instead of "Passing bells and sculpted angels" in West End. WYWSHA has also been changed back and forth a bit. So it was changed completely, to "Long ago, it seems so long ago, how young and innocent we were." to avoid misunderstandings. She said people sometimes thought Steve Barton sung "What a change, you're really not a bitch, the gawkish girl." (you're really not a bit the gawkish girl.). The only reason I've heard thus far is one given by an original ensemble member. Why? I assume it's one of those the lyricist never was fully satisfied with and has continued tweaking. Including "What has time done to me" in Sydmonton to the current version there have probably been four or five different ones. "Think of Me" is the lyric they have changed the most. Why was the text for for example Think of Me changed? Does anyone know the reason? I thought about it when I heard the Canadian cast recording, but I've never even seen it discussed (as far as I can remember). anniversary concert (got it for Christmas ), I started to think about this again.
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