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I really doubt the lyric has been intentionally changed....

Posted by:	Michael_Portantiere 11:14 am EDT 03/15/14
In reply to:	On my own - lyric change or flub? - Drew288 01:38 am EDT 03/15/14

...because if it has been, the new version makes no sense whatsoever. The song is all about how, at night, Eponine dreams that Marius is her lover ("I walk with him till morning"), but then, "when the night is over, he is gone, the river's just a river." She then sings about the reality of the daytime: "Without him, the world around me changes." So, in singing "in the darkness" instead of "without him," Nikki James must have flubbed the lyric -- in two separate performances, by your report. Of course, "in the darkness" appears earlier in the song, sung to the equivalent musical phrase. So I suppose she just wasn't thinking, and sang it twice. When the revival of FIDDLER was playing I heard Sally Murphy as Tzeitel sing the same set of lyrics twice in "Matchmaker," in the "Hodel, oh Hodel..." section. And I heard her do this on two separate occasions, once in the show itself, and the other time in one of those outdoor promotional events (I'm pretty sure it was "Stars in the Alley"). Anyone can flub a lyric, but since I heard her do this twice, it gave me the impression that she wasn't really thinking about what she was communicating, and was more or less singing by rote.

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