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    Song Preparation Sheet: Passion (1994)

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    This document contains a song preparation sheet for the song "I Wish I Could Forget You" from the musical Passion. The song is from the perspective of the character Fosca, who is singing to Giorgio about her feelings for him despite being burdened by disease. The sheet provides background details on the musical, composers, character, and original performer. It describes the song's structure and analyzes the lyrics and Fosca's subtext and actions in each verse.

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    This document contains a song preparation sheet for the song "I Wish I Could Forget You" from the musical Passion. The song is from the perspective of the character Fosca, who is singing to Giorgio about her feelings for him despite being burdened by disease. The sheet provides background details on the musical, composers, character, and original performer. It describes the song's structure and analyzes the lyrics and Fosca's subtext and actions in each verse.

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    This document contains a song preparation sheet for the song "I Wish I Could Forget You" from the musical Passion. The song is from the perspective of the character Fosca, who is singing to Giorgio about her feelings for him despite being burdened by disease. The sheet provides background details on the musical, composers, character, and original performer. It describes the song's structure and analyzes the lyrics and Fosca's subtext and actions in each verse.

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    Song Preparation Sheet: Passion (1994)

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    This document contains a song preparation sheet for the song "I Wish I Could Forget You" from the musical Passion. The song is from the perspective of the character Fosca, who is singing to Giorgio about her feelings for him despite being burdened by disease. The sheet provides background details on the musical, composers, character, and original performer. It describes the song's structure and analyzes the lyrics and Fosca's subtext and actions in each verse.

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    Elizabeth Olah

    Song Preparation Sheet


    Song Title: I Wish I Could Forget You
    Passion (1994)

    Show Title (and Date):

    Composer: Stephen Sondheim

    Lyricist: Stephen Sondheim

    Character Name: Fosca

    Original Actor: Donna Murphy

    Genre and Style: Modern traditional ballad


    Scene Synopsis: Fosca is the principle-leading lady in the musiscal,
    burdened with disease and ugliness. She suffers from slight spells from
    epilepsy, which causes her to scream often and spontaneously. The song
    occurs in the middle of the first act, and Fosca is very sick in her bed
    accompanied by the handsome captain, Giorgio. It is 1863 in Milan, in the late
    evening. Fosca asks Giorgio to write a letter for her from him. Fosca is singing
    to Giorgio all the things she wants him to write to her.
    Particularized Situation (if different from scene synopsis): N/a
    Goal/Objective: I want him to mean what Im telling him to say.
    Obstacle: He is in love with Clara.
    Strategy: Be aggressive. Use pity to my power.
    Research Done: Passion won three Tony Awards including Best Original
    Score, Best Book of a Musical, and Best Musical. Donna Murphy, who played
    Fosca, also won Best Leading Actress in a Musical. It was based on Ettore
    Scolas film Passione dAmore and Iginio Ugo Tarchettis novel Fosca. Passion
    was not well-received by the audience at first, because of no one could
    believe Giorgio would fall in love with Fosca.
    Song Structure: AABA
    Lyric Analysis (label verses, chorus, etc.):
    (Verse,A,Etc.)
    Lyric
    Verse 1
    I wish I could forget
    you
    Erase you from my
    mind
    But ever since I met
    you I find I cannot
    leave the thought of

    Subtext

    ACTION (Verb)

    I hate that I cant get


    you out of my head.

    To lament.
    To recall.

    I dont love you, but I


    wish I could.

    To resist.

    you behind.
    That doesnt mean I
    love you.
    I wish that I could love
    you.
    I know that Ive upset
    you
    I know Ive been
    unkind.
    I wanted you to vanish
    from sight,
    But now I see you in a
    different light.
    And though I cannot
    love you,
    I wish that I could love
    you.
    For now Im seeing love
    Like none Ive ever
    known.
    A love as pure as
    breath
    As permanent as death
    Impeccable as stone.
    A love that like a knife
    has cut into a life I
    wanted left alone.
    A love a may regret
    But one I cant forget.
    I dont know how I let
    you
    So far inside my mind.
    But there you are and
    there you will stay.
    How could I ever wish
    you away?
    I see now I was blind.
    And should you die
    tomorrow
    Another thing I see,
    Your love will live in
    me.

    I was awful to you.

    To admit.

    I wanted you to
    disappear.
    But now things are
    different.
    I still cannot love you,
    though I wish I could.

    To soothe.

    To confess.
    I see the strongest,
    purest love in you.

    A love that I didnt


    want.

    To wonder.
    Youll always be in my
    head and heart.
    I want you.

    To surrender.

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