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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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Spring Awakening
The Broadwater Mainstage (4/26 - 5/11) | |
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Footloose The Musical
Mira Costa High School (4/26 - 5/4)
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What The Constitution Means To Me
International City Theatre (5/2 - 5/19) | |
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PRELUDE TO A KISS, THE MUSICAL
South Coast Repertory (4/5 - 5/4) | |
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Change The Game
McCadden (6/9 - 6/16) NEW MUSICAL
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Kairos
David Henry Hwang Theater (4/4 - 4/28) COMEDY NEW PLAY
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VOX Cabaret
Catalina Jazz Club (5/5 - 5/5) | |
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Beauty and the Beast
Nocturne Theatre (5/10 - 5/26) | |
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Alma
Chance Theater @ Bette Aitken Theater Arts Center (5/3 - 5/26) | |
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Beethoven's Fidelio with Dudamel and Deaf West Theatre
Walt Disney Concert Hall (5/16 - 5/16) | |
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tiny father
Gil Cates Theater (6/12 - 7/14) | |
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Halas Powyzej
Palm Springs Cultural Center (5/23 - 5/26) | |
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