Word: dho
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Dates: during 1999-1999
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...spite of some minor technical difficulties (the stage broke), the Dunster House Opera (DHO) gave a sell-out performance of Leonard Bernstein's opera/musical version of Voltaire's Candide last weekend. The cast, particularly Joseph Nuccio'00 had a great deal of fun with an already witty, sarcastic and sexually infused libretto. Audience laughter often echoed the mirth of the lighthearted and light-footed cast...
...fact, DHO's stage offerred a radical new take on Voltaire's classic story. Roundly showing that this is not necessarily the best of all possible worlds, the stage broke twice. I did not notice the first time the stage broke (apparently a supporting pillar cracked), so clearly, the stage's problems did not detract from what was happening on stage. Sometime during the second act there was another crashing sound (this time I noticed it) and the actors quickly rearranged some of the blocks to mask whatever harm had been done to it. The cast certainly believed that...