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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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Philly GRIT: a Pirate, a School Girl and a Good Person
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William Shakespeare's THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
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The Doo Wop Project
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An Army of Lovers
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ASSASSINS
Town and Country Players (7/12 - 7/27)
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Alyx Hilshey♦ The Street is my Theater (... in a Theatre)
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Danielle Schwartz ♦ Messages From Your Loved Ones
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Wes Iseli ♦ The Magic Man
Smoke & Mirrors Magic Theater (5/11 - 5/11) | |
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Will Fern ♦ He Brings The Party
Smoke & Mirrors Magic Theater (6/29 - 6/29) | |
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Funny Girl
Academy Of Music (7/16 - 7/28) | |
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