#the day I interview ALW I will ask him that question I stg

[s0r3wach1gauy0]

Ok listen while the comments are right, there are some things I'd like to say. (And when I talk about ALW I mean the whole team, it's just a "blame the president" situation and having beef with old British white men is a time honored tradition)

1: I feel like ALW has never been satisfied with this musical. Like the cast changes, the costumes change, and he tries to keep it current, yes. But mostly, I think bro has been tinkering with this musical for...40ish years when he gets bored and needs money. More on that later.

1a: He also has tried to kill off C.B. as a major villain in the '90's and realized fans really don't like that. He's been doing it again since 2019 imo. Like sometimes he thinks he knows what fans want even though I'm not exactly sure he does anymore.

2: This musical is expensive af, but it's in the top 10 most profitable musicals fucking ever which is insane (at #10 but still, there's a lot of competition) so like, bringing it back is like printing money. Could he captialize on that with a proshot dvd situation like '90's Cats or every single POTO proshot? Ofc, but he cares about both of those a lot more bc they're more culturally beloved and seen as more technically challenging at least in the US. I've seen tours of both.

So if you have a creator that is more interested in tinkering, and not really that interested in continuity, you get...The Chart

Do any stex fans know why no comeback was removed but kept as snippets in other songs (like the megamix)? Was just curious because the wiki doesn’t mention why, only that it does. Would it not have made sense just to completely remove it from the musical, or is it like a hint to the past versions? 

On a similar note, why have there been so many variations of the production with songs adde/changed/removed? I can’t think of any other alw musical that has changed that much, like phantom is pretty much the exact same!

Apologies for my ignorance in advanced!