>>83321485>Rasputin and all the black magic stuff was tacked on as fuck.It genuinely was. In Bluth's earlier scripts with Raspustin (who was, in the movie's earliest concepts, not Rasputin but a government agent) wasn't magical at all. Then in one of the 'later' earlier scripts, Rasputin did have dark magic that he used to curse the Romanovs, but he wasn't an undead zombie who had to kill every Romanov to get out of limbo, he was just a sorcerer.
In the new musical, Rasputin/Bartok/magic is gone, and a government agent takes Rasputin's place. Sadly this means no more In the Dark of the Night but they did give a nudge to the song by including the melody for the "come my minions/rise for your master/let your evil shine/find her now/yes fly ever faster" part in a melancholic song that the Russian characters sing as they're planning to flee the country.
