Winner of the 1994 Tony Awards for Best Book, Best Music and Lyrics, and Best Musical "Easily among Sondheim's best
--subtle, rhapsodic and full of emotional depth."
--David Patrick Stearns,
USA Today "Hypnotic, rigorous, very risky...a major work."
--Vincent Canby,
New York Times "Held me in its grip...had me sobbing uncontrollably...Sondheim's deepest, most powerful work."
--Robert Brustein,
New Republic Passion is the third original collaboration between Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine. Their first,
Sunday in the Park with George, earned them a Pulitzer Prize. Their second,
Into the Woods, won Tony, Grammy, Drama Desk, and Drama Critics Circle awards.