Passion with Donna Murphy: DVD Cover

    Passion
    a.k.a. Stephen Sondheim's Passion Director: James Lapine Cast: Donna Murphy

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    • DVD Release Date: 06/10/2003
    • Original Release: 1996
    • Rating: Not Rated
    • Sales Rank: 20,381

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    Featuring audio commentary with Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine, Donna Murphy, Jere Shea, Marin Mazzie, and Ira Weitzman recorded in New York City on December 18, 2002; Audio-only extended cut of "No One Has Ever Loved Me," cut during previews

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    Scene Index

    Side #1 --
    1. Opening Logo; Happiness [6:35]
    2. First Letter [3:28]
    3. No One Has Ever Loved Me [1:07]
    4. Third Letter [2:15]
    5. Fourth Letter [3:08]
    6. I Read [5:50]
    7. Transition [1:07]
    8. Garden Sequence [10:09]
    9. Soldiers' Gossip [2:11]
    10. Trio [2:41]
    11. Transition [3:45]
    12. Transition [10:24]
    13. I Wish I Could Forget You [4:29]
    14. Soldiers' Gossip [1:57]
    15. Flashback [7:23]
    16. Sunrise Letter [4:19]
    17. Is This What You Call Love [2:21]
    18. Soldiers' Gossip [:45]
    19. Transition [1:35]
    20. Forty Days [3:41]
    21. Loving You [3:18]
    22. Transition [2:03]
    23. My Husband Goes to Rome [6:59]
    24. Farewell Letter [6:17]
    25. No One Has Ever Loved Me [9:26]
    26. Finale [4:19]
    27. End Credits [2:38]

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    A soldier learns about himself and love in this made-for-TV filmed version of the Stephen Sondheim musical. Jere Shea stars as Giorgio, a soldier who has a passionate affair with a beautiful and married woman named Clara (Marin Mazzie). When Giorgio gets stationed in distant Italy, he is separated from Clara and attracts the attention of a homely, ill woman named Fosca (Donna Murphy). He at first repels Fosca's advances but over time he slowly warms up and not only accepts her love, but returns it. Bernadette McCallion, All Movie Guide

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    Passionby Anonymous

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    July 12, 2008: Based on the Italian movie Passione d'amore, Stephen Sondheim's Passion is a story of obsessive love. Giorgio &quot Jere Shea&quot , a soldier, and Clara &quot Marin Mazzie&quot , 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 &quot Donna Murphy&quot , 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 &amp quot Loving you is not a choice / It's who I am.&amp quot 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, Stephen Sondheim's score is a constant flow of gorgeous music. &quot The original theater program listed no individual songs.&quot 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. This video is a stage production filmed for American Playhouse with all of the original Broadway principals, though not before a live audience. Murphy gives a powerful, Tony-winning performance as Fosca, Mazzie is in glorious voice as Clara, and Shea brings a pretty voice, a pretty face, and a wooden personality to Giorgio. All in all, this is an amazing, rare piece from the Broadway archive of great musicals.

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    June 01, 2006: This is the best recording of Passion with the original Broadway cast. This is a filming of a stage performance, not a movie.