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| re: TB REGIONAL REVIEW: "PASSION" in SAN FRANCISCO | |
| Posted by: EvFoDr 12:46 pm EDT 06/25/19 | |
| In reply to: re: TB REGIONAL REVIEW: "PASSION" in SAN FRANCISCO - barna99 10:35 am EDT 06/25/19 | |
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| I saw the original production of Passion and loved it. But to be fair, it's a lot to ask of an audience at a commercial Broadway production to immediately embrace a score that is essentially one long song with no song list and no applause breaks. Especially attached to a story that people also had a hard time swallowing. Personally I am glad Sondheim wrote what he was inspired to write. You could see him heading in that direction for a long time, moving farther away from "songs" and more into extended musical scenes/sequences. I think Passion was the culmination of that. But I am not at all surprised that it wasn't popular. I think a (normal, non-John Doyle-ized) revival might be revealing. I saw Passion in Chicago about 10 years after Broadway and it seemed like the audience had caught up to it a bit. Or at the very least knew what to expect. The absence of song buttons and applause points created such intensity and focus. The energy I felt that night was like the audience was really with it. It was like you could hear a pin drop for two hours. |
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| re: TB REGIONAL REVIEW: "PASSION" in SAN FRANCISCO | |
| Posted by: Ann 12:49 pm EDT 06/25/19 | |
| In reply to: re: TB REGIONAL REVIEW: "PASSION" in SAN FRANCISCO - EvFoDr 12:46 pm EDT 06/25/19 | |
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| The recent Signature (Arlington) production seemed to be well received - I thought it was enthralling start to finish. And I enjoyed the first production I saw (regional) - the music kind of washed over me and didn't register as songs. But it all worked. |
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| re: TB REGIONAL REVIEW: "PASSION" in SAN FRANCISCO | |
| Posted by: dczoo 01:16 pm EDT 06/25/19 | |
| In reply to: re: TB REGIONAL REVIEW: "PASSION" in SAN FRANCISCO - Ann 12:49 pm EDT 06/25/19 | |
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| I liked the Signature production quite a bit. The night we saw it, there were a couple of guys in the front row who laughed boisterously throughout some of Fosca's more dramatic scenes. During the curtain call, Natascia Diaz left the cast and approached them. I couldn't hear what she said, but it looked like she was letting them have it. | |
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