So Much Happiness?
Exploring Passion's opening duet
“I’m so happy I’m afraid I’ll die here in your arms.”
From its very first line, Sondheim and Lapine’s Passion announces itself as a musical that will explore love at its most intense, where moments of overwhelming joy might contain within them the seeds of their own destruction.
The year is 1863. In a darkened bedroom in Milan, two lovers share what they …
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