MusicDrama

Passion

Name: Passion
Director: Lonny Price
Genre: Music, Drama
Released: 2005-03-31
Duration: 117 min
Cast: Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, Michael Cerveris, Alexander Gemignani, Kate Baldwin

March 31, 2005

1h 57m

Passion is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Lapine. The story was adapted from Ettore Scola's film Passione d'Amore. Central themes include love, sex, obsession, illness, passion, beauty, power and manipulation. Set in 19th century Italy, the plot concerns a young soldier and the changes in him brought about by the obsessive love of Fosca, his Colonel's homely, ailing cousin.