The Comedy About a Bank Robbery

{Spoiler - click to view}Act 1

First scene mostly the same except Freeboys playing the Warden & Warren Tony. Raul is now called ?O'Brian.
Prison break scene: dogs are big cuddly toys rather than lights! Hide behind big leaves rather than desk. Mitch shot at when climbing fence.
Cooper picking up Mitch is extended & incorporates material previously in their road trip scene, which has been completely cut. Cooper is a useless getaway driver as he can't drive! This replaces Sam being Mitch's getaway driver 2 years earlier - I guess one way to solve a plot point that they never got fully worked out is to cut it altogether! Cooper is no longer a fan of singalong songs.
Upon arrival at the bank Everyone Else introduces the scene & main characters direct to audience. He then takes a wallet from an audience member & "reads" out details (obviously not the real ones). The person is "called" Dr Jaggers & this is picked up through the rest of the show with Sam impersonating him at the bank & him being Freeboys' sex therapist - every time this gets mentioned cast stare in direction of audience member. (This doesn't actually work out, in that Caprice thinks Sam is Dr Jaggers but still does the staring at audience member, but Mischief have never let inconsistency stop a gag with this show!)
Sam & Caprice meet in the bank. He only pretends to be Dr, the Dr-lawyer-rabbi gag has totally gone. The whole scene of Caprice with the telephones & Sam having stolen her wallet has completely gone, & therefore the song "Come Softly" is no longer done, apart from briefly being played on Caprice's radio.
Irving follows Caprice into the bank & after taking his cheque she shoves him in the fan closet. Rather than trying to kneel down his main trait is now instantly falling asleep. Caprice's other 2 suitors are completely gone.
No Roger. Everyone Else plays the journalist Hanratty who now appears in this scene as well as Act 2.
Sam no longer impersonates Smitties. Freeboys/three boys gag still the same but boys played by all 3 ensemble.
New gag about Smitties coughing when Freeboys makes a mistake which ten develops into an extended bit with various people choking on grapes & Sam as "Dr" trying to pretend he knows what to do.
Scene montages set to a different song, "Sh-boom", still sung by Warren. Montage scenes are in a different order. Caprice phoning in bed cut, as is disco. New bit with Ruth & Smitties having a date in a "gondola". (Does Minneapolis have gondolas?!) Flower seller is just Sam trying to buy flowers, no Warren, & no flowers are actually for sale so wreath cut. Freeboys plays Rose - think Edna in Hairspray only less convincing!!
Bedroom scene has fewer changes. No interruptions by any suitors - 2 cut & Irving still in closet. Caprice still changes to a loose blouse but actually no longer needs to.
Added bit with Cooper asking Mitch for a password before entering. This turns out to be Cooper's name & is subsequently referenced a couple of times in Act 2.
Caprice pretending to be pregnant to smuggle stuff into bank is moved from Act 2 to just after Cooper's entrance in this scene.
End re-ordered so Mitch tries to kill Warren first then Sam.

Act 2

Order switched so it opens with shortened church scene followed by 2nd phone calls scene, which now ends with a 6th caller in the form of a giant moustache held up by the other 5. The writers must be really keen on these moustaches - they've got bigger over time & now there's a 10 foot one!
No 3-way fight scene for Everyone Else, obviously given omission of 2 suitors.
No 3rd round of phone calls. Instead Smitties' ex-wife & her relations pop up at the bank just as he's been kissing Ruth.
Bank scene not too much changed.
Ruth speaks to Sam (thinking he's Freeboys) about interviewing Sam for a job at the bank & says she worries that she hasn't been a good mother & that Sam'll get into trouble. This makes Sam decide to pull out of the robbery.
Fan closet shenanigans now include Irving emerging between Ruth & Smitties, having presumably got involved in the Mitch/Ruth encounter.
Added bit picking up from Act 1 where Smitties is coughing at "Freeboys" but as it's Cooper he doesn't get it & does Heimlich manoevre on him. Witnessed by Hanratty as suggestive between the other office suggestiveness, when Cooper & Caprice are trying to revive Sam, & Mitch tearing off Freeboys' trousers. Also another nude portrait of Freeboys is brought on just before Hanratty storms out.
Wall & vault scenes virtually unchanged. Cooper no longer sees mice in the vault & the previous instances of him doing the high-pitched voice are also gone. The messier version of Cooper's death, reintroduced at cast change, is still there. Warning to anyone in first few rows of stalls right (low numbers) you will get splattered with water & bits of what look to be red sponge.
No Roger so security guard is now unnamed & highly camp & dreams about undressing Smitties. Finally get gag on Smitties name - frankly not worth the wait IMO! (Apparently this was made more of with a "Welcome Smitties" banner which then got tangled up but this has already been cut.)
Guard still shot but as he's not Freeboy's nephew it makes Freeboys seem slightly less evil shooting him.
Mitch now shoots Caprice rather than Sam (accidentally, intended to shoot Sam).
When Warren jumps out of the window he is picked up by gulls held by Cooper (wearing angel wings) who says they are Simon & Debra. Nice back-reference but I wasn't sure if this was supposed to mean Warren actually dies, given he's seeing dead people/birds, or not.
Chase scene has Sam driving rather than Caprice due to shooing swap. Includes small model car driving off small model bridge.
Last scene blocking changed to take into account Caprice rather than Sam having been shot. When Mitch bursts in he shoots Sam, who falls down as if dead, before being shot by Smitties when about to shoot Caprice again.
Sam seems dead for a minute but turns out he's been saved by the wallet which he then hands back to the audience member.
End as per previously (though no-one bothers to bandage up Caprice's shoulder!).

Out of all the changes the one that I think is a definite improvement is giving Sam a good reason for trying to pull out of the robbery, as before it seemed he just wimped out for no real reason.
The change I like the least is the 4th wall breaking & audience interaction. There is so much of that in the other 2 shows that it seems unnecessary to add any into this one too. Everyone Else's explanation seems to slow things up before getting into the bank action. Sam handing the wallet back at the end jars in an otherwise tense & emotional scene.
I can't see the point of Mitch shooting Caprice rather than Sam. It makes it less tense in the next scene as to whether Mitch will shoot Caprice when he's already shot her once.
I also regret losing Roger, and 2 of the 3 suitors & therefore the 3-way fight scene.
Most of the rest of the changes I'm neither here nor there on. They don't make the show worse but on the other hand I can't really see that they make it better.
Oh well, this is what we've now got and, the writers having now decamped to NY, it seems this is what we're going to have for a while.

{Spoiler - click to view}
The person isn't a plant but the rest is scripted. They switch wallets early on in the process from the one they have just taken to a prop one.

For the first time I managed to be in my seat early enough to spot the planted wallet being given to an audience member. I was slightly wrong in my spoiler-tagged post above: the wallet is given to an audience member beforehand rather than being swapped as it is handed over, as I originally thought.