When young Candide's marriage offer to a baron's daughter backfires, the naïve student of optimism is hurled into an eye-opening journey around the globe, discovering the horrors of existence at every step. Turning Voltaire’s Candide, a stinging blast against tyranny and feigned moralising, into toe-wiggling musical theatre is a crazy idea. Bernstein revised his operetta countless times before settling on the final version. The Grange Festival’s 2018 semi-staged production commemorates the composer’s 100th birthday.
Christopher Luscombe
Director
Richard Suart
Narrator/Pangloss/Martin
Rob Houchen
Candide
Katie Hall
Cunegonde
Charles Rice
Maximilian
Rosemary Ashe
Old Woman
Kitty Whately
Paquette
Robert Murray
Cacambo/Governor/Vanderdendur/1st Agent
Les Misérables73%
Mickybo and Me70%
Hamlet65%
Hamlet74%
The Choral64%
tick, tick... BOOM!75%
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street71%
Priscilla67%
Romeo + Juliet67%
Love Happy58%
Ziegfeld Follies60%
Love Me Tonight65%
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead68%
TÁR70%
Rope79%
Georgetown59%
Help!68%
Footlight Parade68%
Cabaret74%
The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall83%
