Yes, I never saw it in any script, the published one or the one I used from the liscensors when I produced a school production long ago.
But the words were spoken by Burton, and were used in the Papermill revival (I had a friend in that one).
I suspect the words were cut in the whole business of cutting the show down along the way. I swear to you with my hand held over a stack of Sondheim CDs (a solemn oath), the words were spoken. Arthur said that Merlin, who lived backwards, had told him of that future vision. |