Lines dependent on the performance location?

I don't think expressions/idioms count. Even so...
Scandinavian Mile

I've wondered about that too, givesmevoice.

I thought this thread was going to be about site-specific shows like Hedwig. I'd imagine that the line from A Little Night Music is the same anywhere it's performed in English.

Updated On: 7/5/11 at 12:40 PM

From the original London production of Evita, these lyrics were changed in Good Night and Thank You:

Eva: Oh, but it's sad when a love affair dies, we have pretended enough. It's best that we both stop fooling ourselves.

Che: Which means "Get stuffed!"

to these lyrics for Broadway:

Eva: Oh, but it's sad when a love affair dies, the parting, the closing of doors. But we must be honest, stop fooling ourselves.

Che: Which means "Up yours!"

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There's also "She'll take a mile!" in Evita, and they use the metric system in London AND Argentina.

I know of two Rent changed lines.

Rent Broadway - "You can take the girl out of HICKSVILLE/But you can't take the HICKSVILLE out of the girl"

Rent Tour - "You can take the girl out of JERSEY/But you can't take the JERSEY out of the girl"

and

Rent Broadway - "and then she let them take a picture with her,
and then she said she'd help them find the CIRCLE LINE"

Rent Tour - "and then she let them take a picture with her,
and then she said she'd help them find the STATUE OF LIBERTY"

Jersey Boys Toronto: "Everywhere from Medicine Hat, Wyoming to Flyspeck, North Dakota" was changed to "Flyspeck, Alberta."
Jersey Boys London: "the can" was changed to "toilet" and Neil Sadaka was changed to Englebert Humperdinck. Uncle Sam was changed to "the tax man."

The Australian Les Miz revival had some different lyrics in Fantine's arrest. I'm not sure if these were unique to Australia, though.

Rent in Düsseldorf changed "Smile for Ted Koppel" to "Smile for CNN."

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Updated On: 7/5/11 at 02:31 PM

During the Little Shop of Horrors tour in Baltimore a few years ago the one of the lines in the finale was slightly altered from the original ".... Eat Cleveland/ and Des Moines/ and Peoria/ and New York/ and where you live!"

to

".... Eat Cleveland/ and Des Moines/ and Peoria/ and New York/ and Baltimore!"

I assume they changed that last line for every stop of the tour.

In Dirty Rotten Scoundrels on Broadway, during the scene where Lawrence and Freddy discuss the terms of the bet there's a line where Lawrence mentioned a suburb of New York (can't remember the name of the town, or the line itself). On tour this line was changed and Lawrence mentioned a suburb of whatever city the show was playing in.

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I think another Evita change was:

Broadway:
Screw the middle classes, I will never accept them.

London:
F*ck the middle classes, I will never accept them.

But that may have been a change from concept album to stage version, I can't remember.

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In Spring Awakening in the West End, they had a lot of trouble with the line "Looks so nasty in those khakis", partially because they don't use "khakis" to refer to a type of trouser in British English, and partially because when said with a British accent, it no longer rhymes. They went through a bunch of changes and finally settled on "looks so crowded in those trousers", I believe.

They also changed "Michaelmas Chorale" to "Christingle Chorale", but that was more a function of realizing they'd screwed it up in the first place, and that change was carried through to the US tour.

Updated On: 7/5/11 at 08:34 PM

I always assumed the accents in Night Music came from the fact the production started in England and the 3 main leads were British. It also clearly set the piece in a European country instead of the audience wondering if they were out in Yonkers or somewhere. When Peters/Stritch replaced the accents went out the window with Bernadette's fading in and out and Stritch not even attempting one.

This is just my speculation, I wasn't at the meeting the decided to use the accents or anything.