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On my own - lyric change or flub?

Posted by:	Drew288 01:38 am EDT 03/15/14

So I've spent the last five days in NYC and, since Ramin Karimloo was out for the performance of les Mis that I had purchased in advance, I ended up going both Wednesday and Friday nights. (Don't judge! This show is the reason I live theatre, for better or for worse). I thought that Nikki James had flubbed a lyric in "on my own" on Wednesday, but she did the exact same thing Friday. Double lyric flub? Or have they actually changed a line of this song after nearly 30 years?! The change is in the bridge: she sings "I love him, but when the night is over; he is gone, the river's just a river. IN THE DARKNESS, the world around me changes...." Thr original lyric, of course, is "WITHOUT HIM, the world around me changes..." Like I said, she did this both nights. Could it be a mental block, and simply an error she repeated? (This on a night when karimloo transposed two lines in the prologue and Swenson flubbed a line too). Or have they changed this lyric for good?

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Thread:	I really doubt the lyric has been intentionally changed.... - Michael_Portantiere 11:14 am EDT 03/15/14 re: On my own - lyric change or flub? - Drew288 01:39 am EDT 03/15/14 (4) re: On my own - lyric change or flub? - bwaydiva1 08:56 am EDT 03/15/14 (3) re: On my own - lyric change or flub? - mikem 11:11 am EDT 03/15/14 (2) re: On my own - lyric change or flub? - Michael_Portantiere 11:21 am EDT 03/15/14 (1) re: On my own - lyric change or flub? - Chromolume 11:54 am EDT 03/15/14

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