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...show off much of it, and to allow much of [the presentation of Candide] to function as a show within a show. So much of the staging is meant to be a performance within a performance: the set of a movie, or an after-party,” explains Greenhalgh. “We deal with some of the more absurd elements of the opera by saying, ‘This is a show within a show.’ For the parts that feel more real, we bring it back into reality of the theater...
...Greenhalgh receives praise from her cast for her creative and open-minded approach to the material. Hosfield elaborates, “Even though she doesn’t have a lot of experience, she’s really on top of everything, and because she doesn’t have a lot of experience, she’s really open to suggestions, open to collaboration and help...
Princesses become strip-teasing starlets, peasants turn into movie extras, and prostitutes are reincarnated as older, sexually active stars in the Dunster House Opera Society’s (DHO) take on Leonard Bernstein’s Candide. Under the guidance of innovative first-time stage director Kate D. Greenhalgh ’06, the DHO version of Candide, which is based on Voltaire’s work by the same title, will transport the characters from their traditional setting in the medieval past to 1950s Hollywood...
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...
...think that the general consensus is that [Candide] is almost too brilliant for its own good, that each part outshines the other part so much that sometimes it’s a little hard to wrap your arms around it,” says Greenhalgh. “That’s all been leveled against it as a shortcoming, but actually I think it makes it absolutely fantastic...