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Sondheim: I wrote a whole other lyric to 'I Feel Pretty'
Last Edit: WaymanWong 11:57 pm EST 02/22/20
Posted by: WaymanWong 11:54 pm EST 02/22/20
In reply to: re: I wonder why he's never altered the lyrics. - Chromolume 08:27 pm EST 02/22/20

But he says, ''Nobody would accept it. They said it's working great the way it was. Which it was. But it didn't make me less embarrassed.''
Link	'60 Minutes' Overtime: Sondheim says 'I was never happy' with 'I Feel Pretty'
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Interesting that his rewrite has never surfaced over all these years.
Posted by: Amiens 11:48 am EST 02/23/20
In reply to: Sondheim: I wrote a whole other lyric to 'I Feel Pretty' - WaymanWong 11:54 pm EST 02/22/20

Will we ever hear it? I can only think he didn't have much faith in the rewrite himself as he presumably had the power in later years to get it into the show.
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