Lyric flubs that change the plot

[morosco]

Posted: 6/23/06 at 11:13pm

Have you ever witnessed an actor flub an intergral lyric that's important to the plot of the show? It happened when I saw John Barrowman as Bobby in Company at the Kennedy Center. It was during "Being Alive". After Amy says "blow out the candles, Robert, and make a wish...*want* something...want *something*" he was supposed to sing 'somebody hold me too close". Instead he repeated the earlier lyric "someone to hold you too close". He quickly recovered on the next verse.