Sondheim is appointed a Visiting Professor at Oxford University in England. Sondheim receives a Kennedy Center honor from President Clinton. 1994 Passion, adapted from Passione D' Amore, an Italian film by Ettore Scola, becomes the next Sondheim-Lapine project to open in New York. A dark, intermissionless work, it explores obsessive love in 19th-century Italy. Passion wins the Tony Award for Best Musical, makes a Broadway star of Donna Murphy, and runs for 280 performances.
Company is revived in separate New York and London productions.
Sondheim and Furth update the show, changing some typical references and enhancing the role of the protagonist, Robert. Now we make fewer marriages and take their failure for granted, so Company seems oddly optimistic. Happened On the Way to the Forum. Batman director Tim Burton negotiates to direct a film of Sweeney Todd. Sondheim's next expected theatrical musical, long anticipated, continues to be Wise Guys, a work about early 20th-century entrepreneurs Addison and Wilson Mizner, which spans forty years of American history.