Passion
In 1981 Stephen Sondheim saw Ettore Scola's film, "Passione d'Amore," and was so struck by it that he wanted to create a musical based on the character Fosca, who is a woman with a terminal illness and a passion for passion. Fosca (Judy Kuhn) lives with her cousin, Colonel Ricci (Stephen Bogardus) because she has no family. She is surrounded with military men who have no interest in her nor she in them. Life is de…