The English Version of it all

The first burned CD I ever got, was a Which Witch CD (the musical mentioned in the last blog entry,..). I got it from my friend Irene for my confirmation. It had 46 songs from the musical. Before I got the CD from her, we hadn't done anything but listen to her CD and watch the movie from the staging of the musical in London over and over again. We knew all the songs by heart, we could play all the parts og we sang and acted us through the play night after night. There was always a discussion about who should play who. Irene always wanted to be Anna Regina, the evil sister of Bishop Daniel who ruined everything for the innocent Maria, by poisoning her brother Daniel, and blamed Maria for doing it, and marking her as a witch. In the London staging, Anna Regina was a pale woman with black hair (as all the bad guys have) while Maria was the innocent, dressed in white with blond hair, and because of that, Irene thought that the role of Maria was best suited for me. We played the parts with great credibility, and identified with Marias tragic fate, Anna Reginas wickedness and Daniels cowardice who didnt dare to do anything to save his love (Maria,...in case u didnt get that), even though he knew she was innocent. Men.... you cant trust them!!
8 years after my confirmation, Which Witch is staged in Trondheim, the concert version though, but still! I was sooo going! I sat there excited listening to the overture which was exactly identical to my CD. With the program covering my mouth I was ready to sing along to all the songs  I still knew word by word. BUT - song after song came with the original title, same music... But completely different words!!! Why? Everywhere they had changed the lyrics, changed words and sentences and making the songs unrecognizable. The "new" songs delievered the same message as the original versions, but what is the point of changing: "All evil comes from the Devil within" to "All evil comes from the heart from within"!!!??

But the music was great, really good singers and if I wasn't a Which Witch freak as a teenager, it would have been a good concert.

But Anna Regina was blond!!! BLOND!