Recordings of Broadway shows almost always have extensive cuts in the dance numbers -- they leave just enough to be tasty and to handle any needed modulations. Oftentimes, the composer of a show doesn't even write the dance numbers -- they're worked out by an arranger as the choreography progresses. What you get in the rental parts is probably whatever the dance numbers wound up being at the first production of the show.
Aaron.
All quite true, and for a very simple reason. All the classic shows (at least after WW II) were recorded for release on LP. A 12" LP holds 15 minutes per side comfortably, up to perhaps 30 minutes if an engineer monitors the mastering very carefully. That's a MAXIMUM of 60 minutes of recorded sound from a show that lasts maybe 2 1/2 to 3 hours. The dialog isn't recorded, of course, but beyond that the first things to be cut were the dance numbers or dance breaks within numbers. "King & I" runs just a bit over 3 hours, but the movie runs about 2:20. To accomplish that, they omitted at least 4 very important character-building numbers from the movie.
John
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