Ok...not gonna read through ALL this because I'm in the middle of my big ass English paper...but I'll take a break cause it's kind of bothering me.
The original album's Opening is so much faster because they sped it up because they believed no one wanted to hear people dancing for that long. That's also why they also cut alot of the dialouge.
Yea, I had the same thought. When we first started rehearsals for ACL I was going INCREDIBLY fast (aka the Original recording's tempo) for the "Step, Kick, Kick...", and it was about double the speed of the music lol. The director pretty much looked at the pianist and said "Well, someone's listened to the recording WAY too many times." (which was SO true)
Hope no one's talked about that yet