Original Broadway Cast, 1956 (Columbia/Sony) This recording starts with the most exciting overture in Broadway history, and just keeps getting better after that. Leonard Bernstein's gilded score for this adaptation of Voltaire's classic is one of the great glories of the American musical theater. Unfortunately, Lillian Hellman's libretto failed to please, and the show had … Continue reading Candide →
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 12:06PM on February 14, 2015