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First Nighter: Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine "Passion" Gives Passion a Bad Name

23 September 2010 7:27 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »

Just because Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine call their 1994 musical Passion, doesn't mean the intermissionless work is about passion. Sondheim and Lapine would like you to think it is. They'd like you to think their adaptation of Ettore Scola's 1981 film Passione d'Amore is about the nature of genuine, deep-seated love and not superficial, silly infatuation. It isn't, however, what they think or hope. Passion is about something quite different and ultimately highly disturbing. It's a depiction of romantic obsession and the subtly destructive ends to which romantic obsession can lead -- all of it outfitted with somber, totally humorless Sondheim songs, or in many instances songlets, that unintentionally serve as mood depressants. The true Passion message is confirmed once again in London's Donmar Warehouse revival, where the »

- David Finkle

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