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Passion

Passion

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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
Music: Stephen SondheimLyrics: Stephen SondheimBook: James Lapine; based on the film Passione d’Amore directed by Ettore Scola

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.
1997 Transfer Theatre not recorded.
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.

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.

In the literature45 passages

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

Passages naming this show, found by keyword across 178 books. Where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.

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