Passion (1994 Original Broadway Cast)
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CD Details
Edition: Music CDFormat: Cast Recording
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,
Music reviews of Passion (1994 Original Broadway Cast)
Music Review: Beautiful!
Rating: 5 Stars
For me, the hallmark of a great musical is the combination of great singers, great libretto and great composition. 'Passion' truly has it all. I saw this musical when it played on PBS, with Patti Lupone and Michael Cervais. This recording is better than the live version I saw--more emotional and more subtle.. Jere Shea, who plays Gorgio, makes a character that could be unlikable sympathetic by playing it with grace and emotion. His journey from pity to anger to resignation to love is a wonder to behold.
Donna Murphy absolutely shines in the role of Fosca. What a revelation! I don't know why Murphy hasn't earned the fame of Lupone; she's really fabulous in this role! Her voice effortlessly moves from an intimate conversational mezzo in "Loving You" to a soaring, powerful belt in "I Read".
Sondheim employs his usual dexterity and multi-textured approach, especially in the harmonies of the opening song, "Happiness". The libretto is complex and poetic. The central theme, "What is the nature of love?", is handled with such power that I cannot get it out of my head. Should love be within reason or beyond it? Despite the ending, Sondheim does not provide an easy answer, forcing the audience to reflect on the story love after the last note ends.
I cannot recommend this musical enough. A must for anyone who loves and complex, emotional, fascinating story. 5/5 stars.
Description of Passion (1994 Original Broadway Cast)
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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