CANDIDE at EPHRATA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

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."

Authors

• David Lang
• Dorothy Parker
• Genevieve Pitot
• Ian Wolfe
• John Coleman
• John La Touche
• Jonathan Pearthree
• Len Jenkin
• Leonard Bernstein
• Lillian Hellman
• Organic Theatre Company
• Richard Wilbur
• Voltaire

Tony Awards and Nominations for CANDIDE