Most of the great Stephen Sondheim musicals flowed from notions conceived by others. But creating “Sweeney Todd” as a musical was Sondheim’s idea and so was “Passion,” his intense 1994 collaboration with James Lapine, now on very intimate view from Blank Theatre Company in the tiny downstairs studio within the Greenhouse Theater Center in Lincoln Park

Based on both a novel and a movie, “Passion” is the story of a soldier, Giorgio (Evan Bradford), who we first see making love to Clara (Rachel Guth), a beautiful married woman. But when he gets posted to another town, Giorgio becomes involved with Fosca (Brittney Brown), the cousin of his commanding officer, an obsessive, hyper-intense woman disfigured by epilepsy and capable of love on a level that Giorgio had not previously conceived as ev

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