Today's New York Times has an article about an interesting new production of Leonard Bernstein's Candide. It revises the setting from 18th century Europe to post 1950s America, with the "Auto-de-Fe" set during the McCarthy hearings and the five kings turned into Dubya and other world leaders. I'm a big fan of the Bernstein work (as well as the Voltaire novel on which it is based), so I'd be interested to see how this "update" comes out.
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
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