And as a contrast, in this beautiful opinionated world, I believe, like this forum's own Judi, who did her own fan translation, that one can construct a workable English script from the sources available.
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> > And between you and me, while the lyrics that Jim claimed
> > to have written in his blog seem almost the same, the rest
> > shows, to put it politely, that Kunze doesn't have the
> > best command of English.
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> Well, apparently that's been the same issue with "Rebecca"
> (which you can hear evidence of in the original English
> demos.) The Broadway producers have brought in Christopher
> Hampton to work on the English script (whether that
> includes lyrics or not, I'm not sure. I'm also not sure
> what his exact lyrical role was on "Sunset Boulevard" with
> Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black and "Dracula" with Frank
> Wildhorn and Don Black.) I hope "Rebecca" succeeds. It
> would probably remind English audiences that they well and
> truly fucked up "Dance Of The Vampires" and that you can
> have a successful American translation of a hit Euro
> phenomenon.
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> I've always wanted an English "Tanz" but, that said, I
> want the lyrics like "Sweeney Todd". The best
> "Tanz"-related script I have seen is Jim's version from
> 2001. It's been nearly 6 years since I first read that and
> I'm still in awe of it. I wish it could be produced,
> exactly like that, just once. I just want to see how it
> would be done.
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