Last Chance
Passion: Wrapped in a woozy postcoital embrace, a couple launch into a musical ode to love. The lyrics are sugary; the melody seems to burst with happiness. But within minutes, lyricist-composer Stephen Sondheim and book writer James Lapine begin to yank theatergoers out of this reverie and toss them into a world where love is desperate and calculating. It’s a tricky, dangerous show, which might help explain why it has taken more than nine years for a fully staged production to be mounted in Los Angeles. But the city finally has one -- and for the most part, it’s a beauty -- at East West Players.
-- Daryl H. Miller
For the record:
12:00 a.m. Oct. 3, 2003 For The Record
Los Angeles Times Friday October 03, 2003 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 2 National Desk 1 inches; 47 words Type of Material: Correction
Theater date -- The new closing date for East West Players’ production of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical “Passion,” at the David Henry Hwang Theater in downtown L.A., is Oct. 19. A “Last Chance” item in Thursday’s Calendar Weekend mistakenly stated that the show was closing Sunday.
Ends Sunday at the David Henry Hwang Theater, 120 N. Judge John Aiso St., L.A. (213) 625-7000.
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