Anybody watching "Passion"? — Page 4

One addition to Melissa Errico Fan's bio of Cerveris. He has a sister as well as a brother: Marisa Cerveris, who is a dancer and choreographer, and who lives in Bethlehem PA. I was at the "Live from Lincoln Center" Thursday night performance and the staging and performances all seemed very good live. I also taped it and will see what they look like in the television version. When I saw the "Candide" with Chenowith and LuPone live, I liked it, but when I saw it on TV, for some reason, I loved it--maybe it's the pacing that editing gave it, or the variety of shots that made the TV version more exciting. Wonder if this will be the case with "Passion"--I wonder if "very good" will turn into "excellent" when I watch the tape. In the Green Room after the show, I did hear LuPone, MacDonald, and Cerveris all say that they found the TV cameras somewhat distracting, and they kept wondering if they should play to the TV cameras/audience or to the audience in the theatre. Oh, one more thing, Sondheim snuck into his box seat as the lights were dimming, and, when he left after the show, the entire (small) mezzanine section spotted him and gave him a round of applause.

Michael!!! Love him. Yes, his sister was his date to the Tony Awards last year. So cute!

Again I ask... where is the stage door? anyone?

Is it 8 pm yet?!

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Umgeoboy: I was sitting in the center of the first row of the mezzanine. There were about 3 rows of mezzanine behind the center row of boxes (and a few more mezzanine rows on the sides of the center mezzanine rows). Sondheim and Lapine were in a box a little off dead center in that row of mezzanine boxes which were in front of the center rows of mezzanine seats. Which side boxes were you on Umgeoboy, the ones past the camera on a crane, or the ones across from those? I should have clarified in my message, that all the folks in the few center mezzanine rows spotted Sondheim AND Lapine going out (S. and L. sat where they did, I would imagine, because they were interviewed outside the mezzanine doors before the show as part of the "Live from Lincoln Center" broadcast.

Isherwood's review:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2005/04/01/theater/reviews/01pass.html?

I agree pretty much completely.

Did you by ANY chance tape this show, you handsome devil, you? I am desperate to get a copy of it, since I forgot to set my VCR!
Thanks so much for any help...

I was surprised that Sondheim didn't take a bow at the end.