Candide
Olivier Theatre, NT
Music by Leonard Bernstein
Book adapted from Voltaire by Hugh Wheeler
New version by John Caird
Lyrics by Richard Wilbur
Additional lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, John Latouche, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker and Leonard Bernstein
This was a National Theatre production that opened at the Olivier Theatre on the 13th April 1999 and played in repertoire for the following year.
This adaptation of Candide is published by Music Theatre International (MTI) in New York. You can access the relevant pages on the MTI website by clicking here.
Creative Team
| Director | John Caird |
| Design | John Napier |
| Costume Design | John Napier with Elise Napier |
| Lighting | Paul Pyant |
| Choreographer | Peter Darling |
| Music Director | Mark Dorrell |
| Orchestrations | Bruce Coghlin |
| Fight Director | Malcolm Ranson |
| Sound | Paul Groothius |
| Company Voice & Text | Patsy Rodenburg |
| Staff Director | Stephen Wrentmore |
| Associate Music Director | Steven Edis |
| Assistant Choreographer | Lynne Page |
Cast
| Voltaire | Simon Russell Beale |
| Candide | Daniel Evans |
| Cunégonde | Alex Kelly |
| Maximilian | Simon Day |
| Paquette | Elizabeth Renihan |
| Pangloss | Simon Russell Beale |
| Baron | Denis Quilley |
| Baroness | Myra Sands |
| Corporal | Richard Henders |
| Captain | David Burt |
| Drill Sergeant | Clive Rowe |
| Minister | Chu Omambala |
| Minister’s Wife | Ceri Ann Gregory |
| James, the Anabaptist | David Arneil |
| Don Issacar | Robert Burt |
| Grand Inquisitor | Alexander Hanson |
| Sailor | Michael Wildman |
| Inquisitors | David Burt, Charles Millham |
| Old Woman | Beverley Klein |
| Cacambo | Clive Rowe |
| The Governor | David Burt |
| Adjutant | Michael Wildman |
| Jungle Girls | Claudia Cadette, Elizabeth Renihan |
| Monkeys | Gilz Terera, Richard Henders |
| King of Eldorado | Mark Umbers |
| Queen of Eldorado | Jax Williams |
| Sheep | Charles Millham/Myra Sands |
| Slave | Gilz Terera |
| Vanderdendur | Alexander Hanson |
| Women of Venice | Claudia Cadette, Ceri Ann Gregory, Gabrielle Jourdan, Samantha Lavender, Leigh McDonald, Myra Sands, Jax Williams |
| Charles Edward | David Arneil |
| Theodore of Corsica | Robert Burt |
| Tzar Ivan | Richard Henders |
| Sultan Achmet | Chu Omambala |
| Stanislaus | Charles Millham |
| Hermann Augustus | Mark Umbers |