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re: But these aren't the lyrics from the cast recording or the ones performed in the show.

Posted by:	sf 09:34 pm EST 12/04/13
In reply to:	But these aren't the lyrics from the cast recording or the ones performed in the show. - GabbyGerard 08:47 pm EST 12/04/13

None of Rice's work ended up in the show, if that's what you mean. The song apparently changed a great deal in previews in London; Rice's lyrics were sung at some previews, as were Nunn's, which also evolved during previews, and by opening night they'd settled on Nunn's version of the song (there's an interview somewhere in which Elaine Paige says she sang different lyrics for the song every night for the first ten previews). The version of the song on the London cast album is the version they'd settled on by the end of London previews, and it was used in the show in London for quite a while; the song, though, was revised for Broadway - not for the better - and those revisions eventually made their way back into the London production (and every other production as well). In whatever version, Nunn's lyrics are far more directly influenced by Eliot than Rice's.

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