Movie Musical Review: Passion (Stephen Sondheim)

This musical I found on Your Tube. Stephen Sondheim music and lyrics.  Book James Lapine.
 Being about passion, it has a scene that is inappropriate at the start, but other than that it tells its story well.  This remind me of what Federico Garcia Lorca would write.  We are introduced to to Giorgio (Jere Shea) and Clara (Marin Mazzie) who are madly in love, though Clara is married to a different man.  Our lovers must part however, as Giorgio is a Captain in the military, and has orders to a different assignment. 
Giorgio meets a new group of men, including the Colonel, his ranking officer, whose cousin, Fosca (Donna Murphy) lives with him, as her parents have both passed away.  Turns out her story is truly tragic.  She was married, but only to a man who took his dowry, and then borrowed more from her parents, and left her parents broke.  He did not love her.  In fact, he was already married.
She was crushed and defeated, and now she is sick, and has nervous convulsions.
However, when Giorgio arrives, she is intent on making him her lover.  For her part, she loves him from the moment she sees him from the window.  This has the feel of an obsessive lover.  She follows him, and he wants to leave her.  In fact he takes a four-day leave to be with Clara, and writes a letter explaining his affections are elsewhere.  Fosca takes this as a rival, but does not give up. 
The doctor, who also treats Fosca, asks him to reconsider, and placate her, as it would be good for her health.  This he does, but she still carries things too far.  She forces him to write a letter, and dictates the words.  A love letter. 
Giorgio finally gives in.  He realizes he has never been loved like this before.  However it is too late.  Fosca's health is going.  And Giorgio's mind cracks under all the pressure. 
This musical, like I said, has a Lorca feel.  In Lorca it seams things never turn out right.  That is true her as well.  Sometimes, love is hard.
What is the meaning of true love.  This play concludes with Giorgio singing to Fosca
No one has ever loved me
As deeply as you.
No one has truly shown me
What love could be like until now:

Not pretty or safe or easy
But more than I ever knew.
And Fosca responds, To die loved is to have lived.

Musical Review: Tangled Soundtrack

This is the music from the Disney Musical Tangled.  The music was written by Alan Menken with lyrics by Glen Slater.  The story is based on the tale of Rapunzel by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.  I must admit, the song "I see the Light" I play over and over.  I find this song as enjoyable as the songs from "Frozen." 

All those days, watching from the windows
All those years, outside looking in
All that time, never even knowing
Just how blind I've been

Now I'm here, blinking in the starlight
Now I'm here, suddenly I see
Standing here, it's, oh, so clear
I'm where I'm meant to be

And at last, I see the light
And it's like the fog has lifted
And at last, I see the light
And it's like the sky is new
And it's warm and real and bright
And the world has somehow shifted

All at once, everything looks different
Now that I see you

All those days, chasing down a daydream
All those years, living in a blur
All that time, never truly seeing
Things the way they were

Now she's here, shining in the starlight
Now she's here, suddenly I know
If she's here, it's crystal clear
I'm where I'm meant to go

And at last, I see the light
And it's like the fog has lifted
And at last, I see the light
And it's like the sky is new
And it's warm and real and bright
And the world has somehow shifted

All at once, everything is different
Now that I see you

Now that I see you
This is the song that the main characters, Rapunzel (Mandy Moore) and Flynn Rider (Zachary Levi), sing while the are floating on the lake watching the floating lanterns.  I really don't care for the music of the old witch, (Donna Murphy) but Moore sings a couple other nice songs,
"When WIll My Life Begin" with a couple reprises and "The Tear Heals" which is very emotional.