Were the lyrics to And the Money Kept Rolling In rewritten for the revival?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Or did Ricky Martin just mess up half the song last night?

[jv92]

I don't know-- pretty sure he messed them up, but that master of his craft, Tim Rice, could have made changes.

What was sad was Patti and Mandy's impromptu performance of the end of "Don't Cry For Me..." was better than that entire EVITA production.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

I blocked most of it out now that it's over, but I know there were at least three lines he sang in that song that were lyrically different from anything I've ever heard.

[Jordan Catalano]

I saw the show the other week and don't remember any changes so I guess he just F-ed it up.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Maybe he'd do it better if it wasn't given the tempo of a dirge.

[jv92]

I'm noticing...

"A voluntary fall" instead of "voluntary cause"

A high note on "PerOOOON" that sounds like he was thinking, "Oh ****, Mandy Patinkin's here and did that. I better do it, even though I'm two counts off."

Otherwise, no mistakes. He's just way too chipper and badly miscast and/or misdirected.

[CATSNYrevival]

^I think it's just the accent on fall/cause, but I could be wrong.

[Rainbowhigh23]

Sounded like he said "voluntary fall" to me. He sounded better when he was yelling "EVA!!!" and hooting and hollering during the dance sequence.

Aren't most of the vocals pre-recorded? The way he was running around I'd think he'd be panting through the song.

[Bettyboy72]

He acted it like he should be in Newsies. Horrendous. Between his scenery chewing good boy and Elena's ice queen I could barely watch.

[adamgreer]

Were the pitches for Eva's 6 bar introduction re-written, or does Elena Roger just not know how to sing?

[jv92]

She doesn't know how to sing. Ricky doesn't know how to act. It balances out.

[Gothampc]

He so wildly over-enunicated everything that I couldn't understand anything.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

It was definitely "voluntary fall."

Followed by "think of all the people, gonna see some good times now."

At the end of the first "rolling on" chorus he mouths something else while the other people sing "rolling on in."

"Never been accounts in the name of Eva Peron" didn't sound quite right either.

I did like the sexy hex hands he put on Eva right before the number ended, though.

[Bettyboy72]

Ricky flubbed lyrics when I saw the show. Clearly he can do what he wants-it's his show.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

He reminds me of Doug Henning with the big eyes and big hand gestures.

[The Distinctive Baritone]

BTW, what's going on with his facial hair? He had a moustache, then shaved it, then had it for the Tonys--or it might hacmve been a fake, I couldn't tell.

[TheatreDiva90016]

And on that note, what was Tracie Bennett singing, because it's wasn't CLANG CLANG CLANG?!

[jv92]

It sounded like "CLAM, CLAM, CLAM" or something. Does she think she's The Little Mermaid?

[TheatreDiva90016]

She didn't get one of those lines right but I couldn't tell what she was saying.

I had to go back and listen to it again... Still didn't understand it.

[Neverandy]

The whole sequence made me thank my lucky stars that I didn't waste money on this show this season.
Does Ricky (or the director) know what the show is about? Maybe the "everyman" idea that we all have been dissecting wasn't anything more than the creative team covering for Ricky's complete inability to convey the resentment and frustration that a character who, in his opening song says "Just a man, who grew and saw, from 17 to 24, his country bled, crucified, she's not the only one who died!" might actually feel. And the Money Kept Rolling in is, like most of the show, a display of the irony of the situations and economic realities that were occurring in Argentina during the time of Peronism. Ricky made it seem like he was performing at a county fair.
Can he do anything besides stick his arms out to the side and smile like he did in the La Vida Loca video?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

[TheatreDiva90016]

LOL^^^

"You want thingamajiggers?! I've taken 20!"

[moym471]

That photo is too perfect!!

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

So, on the album, he sings "think of all the people gonna see some good times now." I wonder if it was really changed, or if it's just a mistake no one bothered to correct. Also, on the album, it sounds like he's saying "voluntary clause."


ETA - I just listened to the London revival recording and Matt Rawle also sings "gonna see some good times now," so I guess it was an intentionally, if mystifyingly arbitrary, change to the lyrics.

[CATSNYrevival]

^There are a few moments on the recording where it sounds like people are paraphrasing the lyrics, even if it's just making something plural that I'm not sure is supposed to be, but I'd have to check the libretto to be sure.

[CATSNYrevival]

I'm pretty sure he also says "simply disappeared" during "Waltz For Eva and Che." It's supposed to be "simply disappear" so that it rhythms with "clear." I'm sure there's more.

It sounds like, maybe, he learned the music by listening to a recording and not actually reading the correct lyrics in the score.