| Actually, when the show opened at the Barbican, it was 3 hours and 45 minutes, slowly settled into 3 hours and 12 minutes after ~2 years of tweaking prior to the Broadway opening, and about 12 years later was cut to 2 hours and 58 minutes (or so,) when they wanted to stop paying overtime for the Broadway production (which quickly became the standard for all productions around the world.) |
