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Candide " review by Michael Billington

Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonLeonard Bernstein's musical gets a restless, comic-strip production that has a jaunty ebullience and two outstanding leadsI suspect there are two ways to approach Leonard Bernstein's much-revised 1956 musical. One, as with Hal Prince's 1973 New York revival, is to treat it as a circus-like extravaganza. The other way, as in John Caird's excellent 1999 National Theatre version, is to al…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AM on December 3, 2013

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