The director Jamie Lloyd has worked closely with Sondheim and Lapine on making this central trio of characters the heart of the show. Roger and Strallen are the only women in the production with the soldiers also playing all the other roles, including the female ones.
Apparently Sondheim has cut some of the score, trimmed and changed lyrics, while Lapine has reshaped the book. Passion is notable for being the only other show ( apart from Sweeney Todd) that Stephen Sondheim himself conceived.
The piece will not have an interval and be 10-15 minutes shorter than the original 1996 London production which was directed by Jeremy Sams and starred Maria Friedman and Michael Ball.
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