Word: shows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most endearing single character is Carol Ellingson as Cunegonde's old servant lady. Ellingson plays the Old Lady as a Yiddish grandmother, and she gets more and more campy as the show goes on, raving and waddling about the stage...
...MAIN actors who remain the same characters throughout the show struggle a bit to develop consistently amid the cartoon zaniness of the supporting roles, but for the most part they cope very well. Cornelia Ravenal, as the ever-willing Paquette, bubbles guilelessly along, creating an enjoyable caricature. Stephen Hayes starts a bit shakily as Maximillian, Candide's foppish foster brother, but he becomes more convincing with each episode until he shines in a wonderful passage with the Governor in which he gets sold as a female slave only to have his coconuts exposed at the last minute. Hayes sometimes fails...
...fault may be with the director for trying too hard to make Candide reflect the contrast between Dr. Pangloss's world view and the world itself. The result, however, is a boring character substituted for a sympathetic one. Jacob's performance doesn't hinder one's enjoyment of the show, it just doesn't advance the show as much as it could...
Because Candide is so farcical, (and any show that involves actors in ape suits is by definition a farce), you aren't likely to be emotionally affected by it in any deep way. But in this grimmest of all possible worlds, a fast-paced piece of pure entertainment is always welcome. It beats tending your garden...
...young boy's lapse into a blind, deaf and dumb state, induced by witnessing his father's murder. This is the story of a boy who suffers repeated assault to emerge as pinball champion, guru, and finally, a victim of his own followers' violence. This is the show that almost appeared in Dudley House. However, a Master's wrath (piqued by an oversize stage) forced a sudden relocation to the Currier fishbowl...