Passion
Shows · Passion
Passion is a one-act musical, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Lapine. The story is adapted from Ettore Scola's 1981 film Passione d'Amore, and its source material, Iginio Ugo Tarchetti's 1869 novel Fosca.
- Opened
- 1994
- Performances
- 280
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Megamusical
Won the Tony Award for Best Musical, 1994.
Productions5 on Broadway
| 1983 | Longacre Theatre Original. May 15, 1983 · Marshall W. Mason · predates this show | 97 performances |
| 1994 | Plymouth Theatre Revival. May 9, 1994 · James Lapine | 280 performances · 1 Tony wins |
| 1996 | Sondheim Theatre Transfer. January 7, 1995 | |
| 1997 | Transfer Theatre unknown. January 7, 1995 | |
| 2004 | Ambassador Theatre Revival. October 20, 2004 | 1 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 1 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 4 albums held
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Passion matched on title alone: a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
Read from the licensor's own pages and catalogues. Rights move, and an empty row means we have not confirmed a publisher, not that the show cannot be licensed.
45 passages naming Passion, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Passion, starring Frank Langella, Cathryn Damon, Bob Gunton, E. Katherine Kerr, Roxanne Hart, and Stephanie Gordon. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p95
Morris Gest leased the theater to present The Passion Play, but it closed after five weeks with a $250,000 loss. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p270
Peter Nichols’ Passion (5/15/83; 97 performances); George Furth’s Precious Sons (5/20/86; 93 performances); Frank D. Gilroy’s Any Given Day (11/16/93; 32 performances); Horton Foote’s Young Man from Atlanta (3/27/97; 84 performances); David. Henry Hwang’s Golden Child (4/2/98; 69 performances); and John Pielmeier’s Voi… book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p334
Passion had a run of only 280 performances. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p393
Sondheim’s catalog for which he wrote music and lyrics includes such iconic works as Company (1970), Follies (1971), A Little Night Music (1973), Pacific Overtures (1976), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979), Merrily We Roll Along (1981), Sunday in the Park with George (1984), Into the Woods (1987), A… book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p361
Passion (1994), in collaboration with George Furth, the nonmusical mystery Getting Away with Murder (1996), and the 1996 revival of A Funny Thing. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p1106
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