BOOK BY JAMES LAPINE

MUSIC AND LYRICS BY STEPHEN SONDHEIM

Directed by Rory Pelsue

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Dramaturgy: Molly FitzMaurice

Music Director: Jill Brunelle

Scenic Design: Riw Rakkulchon

Choreography: Shadi Ghaheri

Costume Design: Matthew Mallone

Sound Design: Tye Fitzgerald

Lighting Design: Nic Vincent

Stage Manager: Abigail Gandy

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Cast:

Abubakr Ali, Erika Anclade, Ben Anderson, Stephen Cefalu, Jr., John R. Colley, Erron Crawford, Patrick Foley, Courtney Jamison, Steven Lee Johnson, Stephanie Machado, Patrick Madden, Hudson Oznowicz, Lynda Paul, Solon Snider

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Musicians:

Jill Brunelle, piano, celeste; Kari Hustad, trumpet; Márta Hortobágyi Lambert, viola; Kay Nakazawa, violin; Jordan L. Ross, percussion; Jennifer Schmidt, cello; Noah Stevens-Stein, bass; Emily Duncan Wilson, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet; Leonardo Ziporyn, oboe, English horn

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REVIEW HIGHLIGHTS:

Third-year director Rory Pelsue’s thesis production of Stephen Sondheim’s Passion is an extraordinary success. The musical, which has been called “the ugly duckling” of the famed composer’s career, is Romantic to a fault, perhaps, but that’s actually a key strength of the show at the Yale School of Drama….

-Donald Brown, New Haven Review

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