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** The chair thing might have more to do with the potential physical danger involved than with censoring.
* In all twentieth-century versions of ''[[Starlight Express]]'', Ashley carried a pack of cigarettes and frequently mimed smoking them. The second U.S. tour made her a smoking car [[In Name Only]] and heavily implied that she'd turned to promiscuous sex instead, which would be fine if it hadn't been presented in the sleaziest manner possible.
** The Broadway adaptation of the show rewrote "Belle the Sleeping Car" to emphasize Belle's career as a prostitute, which would ordinarily be the opposite of this trope...except that the Broadway version removed some drug references and greatly increased the comedic factor of the character, rather than portraying her as the resigned, despondent old woman she was in the London show. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120917232353/http://bellesdomain.co.uk/belle.htm See this link to contrast the two.]
** The 1992 London revamp excised the [[Serial Killer]] villain, who provided the catalyst for most of the conflict in act two. Ironically, the rewritten reversal was more violent than before.
* At least one High School production of ''[[A Chorus Line]]'' turned the song "Tits and Ass" into "[[This and That]]". Which, in a way, turned a song about stage titillation into a song about prostitution (!).
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