SUBMIT UPDATES
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."
Videos
 |
Tick, Tick...Boom!
George Street Playhouse (4/23 - 5/19) | |
 |
The Hook
Warner Theater (7/21 - 12/31) | |
 |
Patti LuPone
Mayo Performing Arts Center (3/8 - 5/17) | |
 |
The Prom
Phoenix Productions (at the Count Basie Center for the Arts) (5/3 - 5/4)
PHOTOS
| |
 |
Choice
McCarter Theatre Center (5/8 - 6/2) | |
 |
James and the Giant Peach
First Presbyterian Church (4/26 - 5/5) LIMITED TICKETS REMAIN | |
|
“Fabulous Fanny : The Songs & Stories of Fanny Brice,
Sieminski Theater (5/12 - 5/12)
PHOTOS
| |
|
Miracle on 34th Street
Surflight Theatre (11/30 - 12/15) | |
|
Head Over Heels
Surflight Theatre (8/20 - 9/1) | |
|
Beethoven’s “Eroica”
Richardson Auditorium at Princeton University (5/17 - 5/17) | |
|
American Idiot
RoundTable Theater (5/2 - 5/4)
PHOTOS
| |
| VIEW SHOWS ADD A SHOW | ||
Recommended For You
Get New Jersey's #1 Newsletter
Get the best news & discounts for New Jersey & beyond.
