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Music : Passion (1994 Original Broadway Cast)
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Passion (1994 Original Broadway Cast) by: Stephen Sondheim, Donna Murphy, Marin Mazzie List Price: $11.98 CD-Charts Price: $10.99 You Save: $0.99 ( 8%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0724355525123 Format: Cast Recording, Soundtrack Label: Angel Records Manufacturer: Angel Records Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Angel Records Release Date: November 19, 2002 Studio: Angel Records Sales Rank: 10684 MPN: 55251 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.com: 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 Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - An American operettaSondheim 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 ... Read More: Rating:  - The CD is damagedI bought 3 cds from amazon and was happy that I received them days earlier and excited to listen to all of them, the first one I opened was Passion. To my great disappointment, when I played this recording, half of the tracks sounded like the cd was scratched. Tried it on to other players and it's the same, while the other two cds I bought with Passion seemed perfectly fine. Rating:  - didn't playreceived the cd in a cracked case which is always irritating. But when the cd didn't play, it was time to start shopping locally again. Rating: - Love Without ReasonThis is my favorite Sondheim musical. For me that's a big statement, but this musical is beyond brilliant. Based on a 19th century Italian novel that was later made into a film, the dark nature of this story might alienate some listeners at first. We open on a scene where Giorgio, a handsome young soldier is bidding farewell to his beautiful mistress, Clara- he has been sent to a remote outpost. They are young and in love but Clara is married. Still they are hopeful for their future. When Giorgio arrives at his new location he finds a remote, provincial town where his Colonel lives with his cousin Fosca, a repulsive, terminally ill woman. Fosca falls hopelessly in love with Giorgio and the love triange makes up the crux of the plot. Read More: Rating: - I have got two defective Passion CD!!I ordered a Passion CD but when I tried to play on all my players (Computer, Bose) it would "screw-up" on the first 8 or 9 tracks. I returned and Amazon quickly replaced. But when I the second CD it also did the same thing. I returned the CD and Amazon would not send a replacement due the fact that all may be defective. They did refund my money. Hopefully the manufacturer will get this fixed. |
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