Leonard Bernstein
The incomparable Leonard Bernstein has composed this wacky screwball comedy as the perfect musical expression of Voltaire's timeless satire. A scintillating score full of musical hi-jinks and rich melody underscores the tale of the hapless Candide, who's 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 beshmirchments by - well, almost everybody.
Candide is an enthralling romp, an unsanctioned marriage of myriad laughs and lovely lyricism.
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$35 General Admission
$32 Seniors 62+/Students
Group rates available: call 707.763.8920
Nina Shuman, Music Director
Elly Lichenstein, Stage Director
David Wright, Set Designer
Lisa Eldredge, Costume Designer
Wayne Hovey, Lighting Designer
Will Hart Meyer...Candide
Sheila Willey...Cunegonde
William Neely...Voltaire/Pangloss
Bonnie Brooks...Old Lady
John Kendall Bailey...Maximillian
Jennifer Kay....Paquette
With the Cinnabar Opera Chorus and Orchestra |
3/20 Post-show mixer. Break down the barriers between artist and audience, meet the cast and ask those burning questions.
3/21 CinnaDinner (5:30) Delight in a preshow dinner at Jacqueline’s High Tea, 203 Western Avenue, Petaluma for a truly memorable experience. Reserved seating and many surprise extras included. More info at www.cinnadinner.org. Optional; reservations required. More info go here
4/1 April Fools! Join the fools onstage by dressing the part in the audience. Prize for the most foolish costume.
Reviews:
" ...a hoot and a holler, with jugglers, slapstick, sight gags, dancing and colorful costumes ...three cheers... Congratulations are in order for the entire production."
Kedar K. Adour, MD
Member of the American Theatre Critics Association and S.F. Bay Area Theatre Critics' Circle - Courtesy of TheatreWorld Internet Magazine
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About Bernstein and Candide:
...he was reaching out to "the masses" and trying to tell them something. You can see this in Candide (1956). Bernstein's love letter to European operetta is also a well-known denunciation of McCarthyism. ("These days, you have to be/In the majority," sings the Old Lady, a lyric Bernstein wrote himself.) Lillian Hellman's original book for the musical ends with furious despair at human nature, but the music and lyrics of "Make Our Garden Grow" sound a restorative note. As Candide begins it, with the wide-sweeping, Copland-esque interval of the "Cunegonde" motif, he invites first Cunegonde, and then everyone else, into a new communal endeavor, perhaps a little more tempered with real expectations. ("But come, and be my wife/And let us try, before we die/To make some sense of life.")
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Reviewed by David Kashimba
Though it may not sound like it, both the Polish movie and Candide are great comedies full of subtle ironies, lots of laughs and bawdy fun. Stage direction by Elly Lichenstein and music direction by Nina Shuman are superb and the entire cast is excellent. This is one of those shows you wish would never end. It’s a true delight.
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