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So Sad,

Glorious music- reworked and made into NOT GLORIOUS MUSIC.Harry Connick is not a Broadway stage performer- wooden ( I almost got splinters ). Just stands there and Croons.Great voice BUT not for Broadway and not Clear Day.
And- what did they do to When I'm 65 ?- seemed like out of a bad production of HAIR.
Too many extra songs included that did not fit into the story and just made the show LONGER than it should have be.
Have the creators of the show ever SEEN this version they have created ?
I think NOT ! Would they pay the high $$$$$$$ to see it ?

Very Sad- if it's not BROKEN- don'T fix it !!!!!!!

That rumor is wrong.

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I am looking forward to the reviews for this show. I wasn't sure I wanted to see it but I know someone in the show and want to see her. However, everyone I talked to very much enjoyed the show even with the changes. From what I am hearing, it is making me want to see it and I am not a big Connick fan.

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Absolutely LOVE Harry Connick Jr.

Seeing it next week with my favorite ladies!!!

I hate t be the one that asks, but how is the stage door given that Connick is the draw here?

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The doctor is nowhere near the "Wait Till You're 65." Warren leads the "kids on the rooftop" into singing that, sort of as a way to convince Davey to move in with him.

The doctor leads the students in "When I'm Being Born Again" as part of the controversial class he's teaching in Alternative Therapies. I'm not sure if the students in the class are supposed to be the same kids as the kids on the rooftop.

Newintown--you're so funny when you go all scatological.

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In the original, Warren (then, the wonderful William Daniels) sang "Wait Till We're Sixty-five" with the rooftop friends. The doc was not in the number. Always thought the purpose of that number in the original was to ID Warren as being focused on finances and concrete existence (projected, but only in terms of actuary tables and lifespan predictions, into the future) vs Daisy, who was in tune with the ephemeral but felt she had to hide it.

Having seen this & Bonnie & Clyde, see the latter.

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Miranda, you're absolutely right.

In the original version, Warren was an annoying drip (comically so, when played well—I'm sure Daniels was hilarious), and "Wait Till We're Sixty-five" showed what was most important to him: future financial security, right down to a guaranteed burial plot (not what the 20-or-30-something Daisy is looking forward to). Warren kind of bullies the unpractical Daisy, who hasn't found the inner strength to realize it yet.

In the new version, the song is meant to be sweet and romantic, more like the Beatles' "When I'm Sixty-four" (an "I want to grow old with you" song), sung by a Warren who's warm, supportive, and hopelessly smitten with Davey.

The problem (among many others), is that the lyrics to "Wait Till We're Sixty-five" have not changed—they're still about financial security and not romantic in any traditional sense.

This is true of many of the songs in the new version. The original lyrics don't match up with the new characters, situations and intentions.