In The Heights - FotherMucker lyric

[threetwoone]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 6:15pm

So I was reading the lyric booklet that came with my In The Heights cast recording just now, and I came across a lyric near the beginning of "Blackout" where Usnavi says

"Yo! I! Can't see!
Quit moving fothermucker
It's an oven
and we gotta
back out"

but upon listening to the song, he definitely does not say that and instead says:

"Yo! I! Can't see!
Quit shoving you son-of-a
It's an oven..."

Does anybody know anything about this lyric change? What is the line in the show as it stands now? Why does the booklet reflect something different than the cast recording? Was it a change just for the recording itself?

Thanks :)

[chewy5000]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 7:42pm

Funnily enough, the recording of LaChiusa's Wild Party does the reverse, printing less obscene lyrics in the booklet but not changing them on the recording.

It is not unusual for the printed lyrics to be slightly 'off'

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 7:45pm

The same sort of thing happened with the beginning of $96,000...originally Benny says "f*** the bling, I want the brass ring like Frodo" but later on it was changed to "keep the ring".

[binau]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 7:47pm

"Funnily enough, the recording of LaChiusa's Wild Party does the reverse, printing less obscene lyrics in the booklet but not changing them on the recording."

I thought the LaChiusa recording was changed....e.g. Burs should say "You ****ing whore" but it's only "You whore".