Passion (1994 Original Broadway Cast)
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Cast Recording, Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2002-11-19
Music Label: Angel Records
Soundtracks:
- Happiness - Marin Mazzie,
- First Letter - Tom Aldredge, Gregg Edelman, Marin Mazzie,
- Second Letter - Gregg Edelman, Marin Mazzie
- Thrid Letter - Marin Mazzie,
- Fourth Letter - Marin Mazzie, Donna Murphy,
- I Read - Donna Murphy,
- Transition
- Garden Seqence - Tom Aldredge, Gregg Edelman, Marin Mazzie, Donna Murphy,
- Transition - George Dvorsky, Cris Groenendaal, Donna Murphy, William Parry, Francis Ruivivar,
- Trio - Marin Mazzie, Donna Murphy,
- Transition
- I Wish I Could Forget You - Donna Murphy,
- Soldiers' Gossip - George Dvorsky, Cris Groenendaal, William Parry, Francis Ruivivar,
- Flashback - Gregg Edelman, Juliet Lambert, Donna Murphy, Matthew Porretta, John Leslie Wolfe
- Sunrise Letter - Marin Mazzie, Donna Murphy,
- Is This What You Call Love?
- Soldiers' Gossip - George Dvorsky, Cris Groenendaal, William Parry, Francis Ruivivar
- Transition - Cris Groenendaal
- Forty Days - Marin Mazzie
- Loving You - Donna Murphy,
- Transition
- Soldiers' Gossip - George Dvorsky, , William Parry, Francis Ruivivar
- Farewell Letter - Marin Mazzie,
- No One Has Ever Loved Me - Donna Murphy,
- Finale - George Dvorsky, Gregg Edelman, Cris Groenendaal, Marin Mazzie, Donna Murphy, William Parry, Francis Ruivivar,
Free Music Notes for Passion (1994 Original Broadway Cast)
Free Music Review: An American operetta
Hit: 5 Stars
Sondheim defies classification, after the fact. His 'Sweeney Todd' has been presented on the operatic stage (not everyone was pleased). Other plays are typically Broadway, like 'Sunday in the Park with George' and 'Into the Woods'. 'Passion', like 'Sweeney', is continuous music, with dialogue and 'arias'. I would class both as 'operetta' ('opera-comique' in the literal sense), but in these times, the distinctions are blurred. Is Sondheim the Lehar, or J. Strauss, or Kalman, or even the Gilbert-and-Sullivan of the day, with a contemporary message ? Never mind.
'Passion' is quintessential Sondheim. Words and music in tandem, evoking moods, and yes, passions.
The cast is first class, especially Donna Murphy as 'Fosca', and the ensembles are vocally near to being 'visual'. I have never seen this musical play on stage - but judging from the music and plot - it is probably best heard than seen, as are some other Sondheim efforts.
If you like Sondheim's music and his own lyrics - you get both in this musical. Note, here there are no set pieces. One reviewer complained that there were no memorable, extractable, numbers. That's the very point of this kind of Sondheim theatre ! When you start, there is no stopping until the end, if you want to get the full thrust of this play.
This recording, with the original cast, is it. Great sound, great vocal actors, and the only recording available to date. Based on its short run, this may be the ONLY recording of one of Sondheim's more adventurous but moving plays (based on Ettore Scola's Passione d'amore).
Passion (1994 Original Broadway Cast) Poster
Based on the Italian movie Passione d'amore, Stephen Sondheim's Passion is a story of obsessive love. Giorgio (Jere Shea), a soldier, and Clara (Marin Mazzie), a woman with a husband and child, are deeply in love, but their idyllic happiness is disrupted when Giorgio is transferred to another post. Here, he meets Signora Fosca (Donna Murphy), a homely and ill woman who is the cousin of the regiment's commanding officer. Fosca soon falls in love with Giorgio and pursues him relentlessly, saying "Loving you is not a choice / It's who I am." He is repulsed and resists her advances, but eventually, he succumbs to the power of her love.Rather than a succession of individual songs strung together by dialogue, Sondheim's score is a constant flow of gorgeous music. (The original theater program listed no individual songs.) The plot is conveyed by song, some dialogue, letters between the characters, and a group of soldiers that serves as a Greek chorus. The result is more of a chamber opera than a conventional musical. Passion won Tonys for Best Musical, Best Score, and Best Book of 1994, and Murphy also won a Tony for her powerful performance as Fosca. Mazzie is in glorious voice as Clara, and Shea brings a pretty voice and a wooden personality to Giorgio. --David Horiuchi
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