Menier Chocolate Factory, London: "I am so easily assimilated," sings Jackie Clune's Old Lady in Candide. If only one could say the same of Leonard Bernstein's famously troubled 1956 musical, which ran for just two months in its original run when it had a book by playwright Lillian Hellman. Some of the greatest writers in musical theatre have sought to put it right in the years since, including Hu…
SOURCE: The Stage at 05:13AM on December 3, 2013