I don't know. I haven't seen every performance of it ever.
Keys are changed all the time in Broadway shows, sometimes during the run, sometimes for tours, sometimes for productions in other countries and in revivals.
Sondheim has particularly spoken about how he never expects the key in which he writes a song to be the key in which it will be performed. He expects that the keys in which songs will be performed will be decided based upon who is cast.
In fact, Maria's music in TSOM was altered for the original London production and the Australian production, but I suspect that started with the national tour, which cast real sopranos as Maria, as did the London and Australian productions.
In fact, unless my ears are deceiving me — I don't have a great sense of pitch — "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" was put in a slightly lower key in that first London production (with a great opera mezzo as the Mother Abbess). Later, June Bronhill sang it in a higher key in the revival with Petula Clark.
Rodgers, who was known as such a stickler for how he wanted his music performed, nonetheless frequently went along with — perhaps even suggested or advocated — key changes for film versions, tours, replacements, etc.
Carol Bruce, for example, performed Vera in Pal Joey a lot, for example, in the national tour of the revival and when that revival was reproduced in London. She sang the songs in much lower keys than the ones in which Vivienne Segal had sung them originally.
And what about the fact that keys were changed for Merman during the original run of Gypsy? What about the extreme key changes in Gypsy done for Lansbury? If my understanding is correct — as I'm not a musician — this went beyond lowering most of the songs by a whole step for her when it got to "Rose's Turn," which goes through a bunch of key changes. Some keys were lowered, some were raised, thereby changing key relationships and reducing the overall range of the number.
Some keys were changed for Christine Andreas when she played Eliza Doolittle.
Do all of those bother you greatly?
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