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Which numbers were dropped?


I was wondering which numbers were dropped for this movie. I don't know how this stuff is in my head but I can remember lyrics such as:

"Come boys, lets all be gay boys. For education should be scientific play boys. ......"

"Happily we have found you, graciously with the prize. ....."

I don't remember hearing these lyrics in the film. From what numbers were they dropped?

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Read the first user review. The author says that all the lyrics were changed.

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In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.

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MGM made great movies with Astaire and Kelly but no Broadway composer (and I guess operetta composers in this case) ever wanted their work to be touched by MGM. They would throw away most of the songs, lip synch everything, replace voices with others dubbing and have Roger Edens add mediocre songs. It's why Rodgers and Hammerstein never allowed them to touch their music. Can you imagine Oklahoma being filmed in a studio rather than outdoors...that would have been MGM. They destroyed Bernstein's music in On the Town, Wonderful Town...threw out all the best music in Brigadoon, etc. So, yes, songs were left out.

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