Maybe the performance I saw ran a little long for some reason...there was a lot of applause in random spots.
Meanwhile, I have been watching all the clips I can find of this show to remember how much I enjoyed it, and I noticed something strange. During Color My World, it shows the bus's pink lights starting to show up a bit during the number as it is on Youtube. But when I saw the show, none of the lights came on until after the song was over and a few lines were said. It struck me as odd then, too, because they sang this whole song about painting it and making it nicer, but the song ended with the bus looking the same as it did before, until the lights came on a few seconds later. Was this just a mishap?
"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."-Stephen Sondheim