Why The Phantom Of The Opera Just Isn't A Believable Piece Of Theatre — Page 3

sorry, double post

Updated On: 6/19/09 at 02:24 PM

Well, no explaining that one, other than the Phantom using his freaky Jedi mind-tricks on the weak-willed Christine.

So, off-topic-ish, there's this one oft-misheard lyric on the cast album,

"What a change, you're really not a bit
The gawkish girl that once you were..."

Which I and others always heard as

"You're really not a bitch... the gawkish girl..."

I just saw Phantom again and they changed those 2 lines entirely. Does anybody know what the new lines are? Any idea when they changed it? It's possible that they were always those two new lines on Broadway and I just have the London cast album in my head only.

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Makes sense, Gawkish is a strange word for Americans.

(But I still like the idea that they changed it to remove the words "you're really not a bitch.")

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Just as a reference for those curious...

Scenes with major lyrical differences from the Original London production are:

"Think of Me" (nearly every verse was changed)
"Prima Donna" (initially, Piangi was never in this scene)
"Masquerade"
"Wandering Child" (unlike the London and Hungarian productions, all others have this as a duet, rather than a trio with Raoul).

There are several other more minor changes, such as in "Music of the Night", et cetera.

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