Passion Finale

[TheatreFilmBuff]

I personally found this music to be beautiful but also not exactly memorable or as sweeping as some of Sondheim's other works, but the show itself, while a little long and tedious, is still a very moving and haunting production and a lot of it has to do with James Lapine, who is probably the greatest writer/director of musical theatre.

[ThePhantom135]

some of Sondheim's most gorgeous music. and that's saying A LOT.

[Benora27]

Wonderful!

[TsWade2]

This musical is boring and gloomy. Beauty & the Beast should of won a Tony for Best Musical and other categories. Sorry, but I wanted Beauty & the beast to win. Stupid tony voters!

[lesmizfanatic90]

@TsWade2 great beauty and the beast should have won. so much easier to accept a musical with no point. the only thing beauty and the beast has is frivilousness. this is a beautiful musical. not all theatre can be meaningless and showy. try opening up to a musical that embodies the human experience like this one, les miz, miss saigon, rent, sunday in the park with george, etc. i've made my point

[64horsegirl]

Fosca's costume/makeup/hair choices are very intriguing to me because when we first see the character, she looks like a ghost. But with every scene with Giorgio, she grows more beautiful until this scene where she truly looks stunning. That face @ 3:09 is just so loving and passionate. I love this musical!!!

[asmileisspecial]

So powerful! I'm tearing up.

[Kattawhat]

The ending is almost enough to have me in tears...this has got to be one of the most painful and beautiful stories rendered into a play

[pillowprince]

Oh my god... goosebumps... i haven't seen this in 12 years... still has that same haunting effect. Amazingly written, beautifully performed.

[RosesNightengales]

"I want to live! Now I want to live......just from being loved....All that pain I nursed inside for all those years......" that made me cry so hard the first time I viewed this cast. Donna Murphy looks beautiful as Fosca. "I don't want leave. .." :(

[Einhorntochter]

oh yes, he is incredible! This is one of my favorite parts of "Passion" - so much feeling. And everytime I see this scene again, I look at it in a different way. It's never the same twice, but always beautiful :-)

[lucyliesinashes]

Ah, the way the music reprises and devlops "loving you" is perfection. This is why we love Sondheim.

[ctillman0]

Donna Murphy was the best for this character. She empathizes the character so well. And the thing is she not really ugly she is actually a beautiful woman and she just i just can not explain it. Made her character come to life with saddness, pain, guilt, all the feelings that a human being could ever feel, she just impacted it all in one. Fantastic.

[wanderinstar2]

stunning in its simplicitiy,,,,

[blatella]

This verbalizes what love should be...

I've had 7 decades to learn and this is the best  lesson!

[MichaelCrawfordsFan]

When Fosca emerges from the darkness, i just fell apart. Knowing she was in a better part of the world, in heaven. But still everytime she sings, I get so emotional.

[jobe413007]

"Your love will live in me" The words can make dying a little easier.

[sharonmary]

thank you for posting this i have loved the music for a long time but never have seen the show. I always find Sondheim's music tell me everything i need to know about the characters, it is infused with all the meaning that the story gives even before you know the story.

[MadameGrishkin]

She is just perfect at the last moment...sent chills down my spine.

[Xeresa18]

The whole cast is superb! I have been unable to find the DVD, but I did get the CD. Donna Murphy was exceptional and I must agree that she is the definative Fosca!

I did get the 1950's Italian version of the story in VHF that this musical was based on, and it was a powerful story. The actress playing Fosca was truly ugly(Donna Murphy looked plain and dowdy), but the woman created such an intense characterization of Fosca that I believed the handsome Giorgio could fall in love with her!

[andrael]

Where did you find the Italian movie? Just wondering, since I'm really curious to see that version of the story myself.

[Xeresa18]

My video store was having a sale on used tapes for $5 dollars and,I find this copy by accident.I loved the Donna Murphy version, but this story was very powerful.

The differencein this version is Giorgio was a cashiered officer telling his story in a cafe to a dwarf about his romance with Fosca. At the end the dwarf started laughing saying that noone could love an ugly woman like Fosca, and he leaves as a unhappy Giorgio drinks another bottle of wine!

[Doliath]

A dwarf? How weird...

[FreedumFries591]

I remember getting this DVD (Hearing how sad it is from my friends) and saying I will tough it out. However, when I got to the ending with Fosca returning to Georgio, I lost it, tears were wedged in my eyes, I could not see. This is coming from a very masculine man.

[skatami]

This is the only musical that's ever made me cry. And I do every time, it's just such a powerful and sad story. Donna Murphy is what really makes it, in my opinion.

[BroadwayTJ]

well put couldn't agree more & Donna is heaven sent.

[Nitervol]

@skatami Ditto!!

[northstargirl612]

i agree there. in the hands of a lesser actress this part could be very melodramatic. donna murphy makes it completly natural and unforced. she never just sings the notes. i don't think there is anything she can't sing. amazing range and tone. gorgeous speaking voice as well. totally becomes the character. the meryl streep of musical theatre.

[tomdunn502]

donna murphy is the best singing actress on the planet earth

[BroadwayTJ]

i agree 100%. She is the DEFINITIVE "Fosca".