Candide (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
1956
Standard Broadway
Candide
MusicLeonard BernsteinLyricsRichard Wilbur (with John Latouche, Dorothy Parker, and others)
Book by Lillian Hellman (original); Hugh Wheeler (1974 revision)
A comic operetta with music by Leonard Bernstein, based on Voltaire's 1759 satire. It follows the naive young Candide, raised to believe this is the best of all possible worlds, as he travels the globe through war, disaster, and the loss of his beloved Cunegonde, and slowly learns otherwise.
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