When he makes lightning, rapier thrusts, she provides body blows. When Voltaire is ironic and bland, is explicit and vigorous. Hellman's libretto was criticized in The New York Times as being too serious: This production was a box office disaster, running only two months for a total of 73 performances. Pangloss, and Irra Petina as the Old Lady. It featured Robert Rounseville as Candide, Barbara Cook as Cunegonde, Max Adrian as Dr. The sets and costumes were designed by Oliver Smith and Irene Sharaff, respectively. The premiere production was directed by Tyrone Guthrie and conducted by Samuel Krachmalnick. Performance history 1956 original Broadway production Ĭandide first opened on Broadway as a musical on Decemat the Martin Beck Theatre.

Hershy Kay orchestrated all but the overture, which Bernstein did himself. In addition, the lyrics to 'I Am Easily Assimilated' were done by Leonard and Felicia Bernstein, and Hellman wrote the words to 'Eldorado'. Many lyricists worked on the show: first James Agee (whose work was ultimately not used), then Dorothy Parker, John Latouche and Richard Wilbur. Bernstein, however, was so excited about this idea that he convinced Hellman to do it as a 'comic operetta' she then wrote the original libretto for the operetta.

5.2 Bernstein 'Final Revised Version' (1989)Ĭandide was originally conceived by Lillian Hellman as a play with incidental music in the style of her previous work, The Lark.

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