Onstage townspeople and yeomen don't seem to be singing or even lip synching. The tale is narrated by Jack Point in a series of very well-written monologues. Generally, characters deliver abridged dialogue, some over introductions to numbers, probably to save time. That the Act II finale was abridged and changed for TV is my biggest complaint. The music, ignoring cuts, is played and sung straight in bel canto style.
Diction is excellent.
Dialog is changed to expose plot points, but it is skillfully written on the whole. The video opens with a very brief history of the Tower narrated by an unidentified actor in a Yeoman costume against an illustration of the Tower. This opens up to the main stage, with a narration by Jack Point. All of this is done voice-over an abridged rendition of the overture. For example, Lt.