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Greenhalgh’s take on Candide is largely inspired by the legendary composer, Bernstein, who is perhaps best known for his West Side Story score. “Bernstein was very much a Hollywood celebrity, and was very in touch with that scene, and I feel that a lot of the parallels really resonate between what Voltaire was meaning to satirize and what Bernstein saw in his own time,” says the director, relating a scene that was originally about the Spanish Inquisition to a scene that has been updated to reflect McCarthyist themes...
Written by Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Dorothy Parker, and Lillian Hellman, among others, Candide is traditionally an ambitious project to undertake musically, dramatically, and technically. Greenhalgh directs a cast of twenty student actors who must showcase diverse skills, ranging from the performance of kicklines to the singing of songs about syphilis over the span of two continents. For this reason, there are three producers—Joshua H. Billings ’07, Sherra T. Wong ’05 and Emily C. Zazulia ’06—rather than the two typical of Harvard productions. Daniel W. Chetel...
Greenhalgh’s take on Candide is largely inspired by the legendary composer, Bernstein, who is perhaps best known for his West Side Story score. “Bernstein was very much a Hollywood celebrity, and was very in touch with that scene, and I feel that a lot of the parallels really resonate between what Voltaire was meaning to satirize and what Bernstein saw in his own time,” says the director, relating a scene that was originally about the Spanish Inquisition to a scene that has been updated to reflect McCarthyist themes...
...climbed 4% on the news. Where does that leave rival Unilever? The Anglo-Dutch titan last week announced a 36% slide in pretax profits for 2004. "They need to re-establish a little bit of momentum" before trimming fat, says Andrew Wood of U.S. investment-research firm Sanford C. Bernstein. But don't expect major weight gain. Unilever first needs "to sort its own problems out," he says. Either way, their bankers' coffers will likely swell. - By Adam Smith...
Jared R. Curhan ’93, a resident of Banks Street, submitted a letter from his Boston lawyer objecting to plans to move two wood-frame houses to Grant Street to make room for a new building on Cowperthwaite Street. Kenneth L. Kimmell of Bernstein, Cushner & Kimmell wrote that the plan violated zoning regulations and failed to “minimize adverse impact on abutting properties” as required...