I will always have a soft spot for the London highlights because it was my gateway to the musical, but...iirc, they got 2 months to translate 50 songs, and the ones that DIDN'T make it onto the highlights are...wowwwwww. The ones that did are just bad.
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The London translation of Roméo et Juliette is actually worse, which is astounding, because until then no one believed it possible.