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Candide (1973)
Book by
Hugh Wheeler
Music by
Leonard Bernstein
Lyrics by
Richard Wilbur
and
Stephen Sondheim
and
John Latouche
Based on the book by Voltaire
One Act, Book Musical, Thru Sung / Operetta, Rated PG
1974 Broadway Revival
Featuring a legendary score by Leonard Bernstein, "Candide" is perhaps the most oft revived of the classic cult musicals. Part sophisticated operetta, part wacky screwball comedy with shades of Monty Python, this funny, irreverent satire is the perfect musical expression of Voltaire's tongue-in-cheek send-up of optimistic philosophies.
In one lightning-paced act, the hapless bastard cousin Candide is expelled from home, drafted into the Bulgarian army, brought before the Spanish Inquisition, swindled out of a fortune, shipwrecked on a desert isle, and separated time and again from his true love Cunegonde, who bears with remarkable dignity a variety of carnal besmirchments by almost everybody. Through it all, Candide remembers the lesson of his dear master Dr. Pangloss: that "everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds."
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News from "The Civil War": The Battle of Gettysburg claimed casualties of almost 51,000 lives—more than twenty times the population of the town of Gettysburg itself. The war would continue for two more years.
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