Some sources have stated that this was cut from the original Broadway production because Boris Karloff couldn't sing it well enough. It seems that this is incorrect and that the number wasn't even written at the time of the Broadway production.
Rather, when the great opera singer Lawrence Tibbett was cast to play Captain Hook in the post-Broadway tour, Bernstein wrote this specifically to take advantage of his vocal abilities. For unknown reasons, it was never performed in the tour.
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