REBECCA London 

agree!! even those were kinda awkward but still better than this

Sounds like "It came below her waist."

@@Dexcab Thank you!

I think they should have recorded this London production. They went to the expense of hiring a sizable orchestra to give the score the pop-operatic sound it needs, and the leads all sang well. A recording would have led to additional productions. Perhaps they thought that further work needed to be done on the English lyrics.

@@auroraspiderwoman5886 Its such a waste to do that and not do a recording. You're right, the orchestration here is phenomenal, it sounded so grand for a underground theatre production. I was trying to figure out if this was prerecorded instrumentals as it sounded so huge.

The show became an enormous hit in AUSTRIA. It's only German Stuttgart run (December 2011 - January 2013) was just averagely successful.

I saw it in Vienna in 2007 not long after it had first opened. It was on a huge scale with enormous sets and effects - including a stunt-double for Mrs Danvers who ran across the stage on fire in the final scene as she destroys the house. They cut that from all future versions of that production, presumably as it cost so much to pay a stunt double just for 30 seconds of work! That original run worked brilliantly and I loved it. It has evolved a lot over time and the German lyrics and original orchestrations remain superb and perfectly fitting to the tone, and uses direct and near-direct lines from the book in many songs. The most recent run in Vienna has the same sets and most of the same costumes (though the ball is now blue and gold not red and pink as it originally was, and it looks bad, especially Mrs van Hopper’s costume now - she was added to the ball scene to give the supporting actress more to do), but it isn’t as good. The effects have been improved and updated, largely. As for the lyrics used in London, there must be about 5 recorded English versions of the title song and none of them has the emotion or darkness of the German version. I think much like “Elisabeth”, “Kristina Fran Duvemåla” and even “Les Misérables”, a lot is lost in translation or simply cannot be translated. Remember that Fantine’s original Paris 1980 big number «L’air de la Misère» proved so impossible to translate into English whilst keeping the tone and meaning that they deleted it completely for the 1985 English version and recycled the tune for Eponine as “On My Own”. Translation always loses something and in the case of “Rebecca”, a lot. Doing it in a small venue without effects or grandeur also loses something too, sadly.