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* The [[Older Than Feudalism|ancient Roman]] playwright Terence adapted six Greek plays. All after the first contain "prologues" in which the playwright rants at the audience about criticisms of the previous adaptation. Apparently, the Romans accused him of "contaminating" the original plays by changing plot elements or tones, and at one point an audience even walked out after it became clear he had combined two similar but separate Greek plays into one adaptation.
* [[Stephen Sondheim]] just ''loves'' to tinker with his musicals even after their initial productions have finished previewing, resulting in different audiences seeing different versions of each show. None of these changes are supported by all the fans, but the most controversial is the addition of "Something Just Broke" to ''Assassins''. Depending on who you listen to, it's either the master stroke that pulls the whole thing together, or a disastrous break in the dramatic arc that should never have been added and should be erased from existence.
** Even more controversial were the changes made to the 2002 revival of ''[[Into
** Sticking with [[Stephen Sondheim|Sondheim]], John Doyle's actor-musician revival of ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (
*** This take was lampooned by the ''Forbidden Broadway'' cast, by the way, as "Teeny Todd."
** There's also the matter of the London version of ''Follies'', which made several baffling changes. Ben's solo "The Road You Didn't Take" was cut. "Live, Laugh, Love", was replaced with "Make the Most of Your Music" (a song which changes Ben's part from baritone to tenor). The lyrics to "In Buddy's Eyes" were altered.
* ''[[Wicked (
* An attempt was made to update iconic anti-Vietnam war musical ''[[Hair (theatre)|Hair]]'' to reflect modern wars. Not only did making that change disrupt the entire show, since
** Of course the 2010 one bombed too, but that had different reasons.
* You would be hard pressed to bring up ''[[Love Never Dies]]'', the sequel to Andrew Lloyd
* No two productions of ''[[Chess (theatre)|Chess]]'' have ''ever'' been the same, and you will find fans who like each one and disparage all the ones that followed it, all the way back to the original [[Concept Album]] from 1983. Librettist [[Tim Rice]] considers the script from the 2009 Royal Albert Hall production to be the "definitive" version, but it's unknown how many subsequent productions have actually followed it.
* Actor replacements. People don't seem to understand that the OBC of any show is unlikely to stay for the entire run. People will overly criticize the replacements, and claim that they ruined the show for them. Even if the replacement actors are [[Your Mileage May Vary|better than the originals]].
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