Candide
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Apr 8, 2008
Closed Apr 20, 2008
Opened Apr 8, 2008
Closed Apr 20, 2008
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Running Time:
2hr. 25min.
(includes 1 intermission)
2hr. 25min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
New York City Opera presents Harold Prince's production of Leonard Bernstein's Candide. Jersey Boys star Daniel Reichard plays the title role at select performances.
Candide features a book by Hugh Wheeler, adapted from Voltaire, and lyrics by Richard Wilbur, with additional lyrics by Leonard Bernstein, John Latouche and Stephen Sondheim.
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In a small-scale 1973 version of the musical Candide, first presented at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (before transferring to Broadway the following year), Harold Prince at last made sense of a musical previously considered an honorable 1956 Broadway failure, despite its ravishing and wittily derivative score by Leonard Bernstein. Using a new book by Hugh Wheeler (replacing Lillian Hellman's original) and the work of a variety of obliging lyricists, including Richard Wilbur, John Latouche, and even Stephen Sondheim, the show came to glorious life. But in 1982, Prince apparently decided it was time for him to make nonsense of the oddly-fated adaptation of Voltaire's satiric novel by creating[...]