The run closed February 2, 1957
- Opened
- December 1, 1956
- Closed
- February 2, 1957
- Performances
- 73
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Al Hirschfeld Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 261st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Candide 5 more that season
| 1933 | Booth Theatre Original | 8 perf. |
| 1959 | Shaftesbury Theatre Transfer | |
| 1963 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 1974 | Broadway Theatre Revival · Patricia Birch | 740 perf. |
| 1997 | Gershwin Theatre Revival · Harold Prince | 104 perf. |
Who was in it43 named
Peggyann Alderman
Boris Aplon
Robert Cosden
Charles Czarny
Jack de Lon
Tony Drake
Naomi Farr
Marvin Gordon
Carmen Gutierrez
Fred Jones
Mollie Knight
Dorothy Krebill
Vivian Laurence
Henry Lawrence
Robert Mesrobian
Lois Monroe
Charles Morrell
Frances Noble
Maria Novotna
Doris Okerson
Liane Plane
Thomas Pyle
Norman Roland
Margaret Roy
Robert Rue
Maud Scheerer
Mara Shorr
Gloria Stevens
Dorothy White
14 of these 43 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 29 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters9 roles recorded
Max Adrian Voltaire/Dr. Pangloss
Robert Rounseville Candide
Barbara Cook Cunegonde
Irra Petina Old Lady
Louis Edmonds Maximilian
Gloria Stevens Paquette
William Olvis Governor of Buenos Aires
N Cacambo
Max Adrian Martin
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Tyrone Guthrie
- Choreographer
- Wallace Seibert, Anna Sokolow
- Producer
- Ethel Linder Reiner
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Around this production
- Another hopeful sign is the number of opera companies that have added musical theatre works to their repertoires. Not only does this help break down artificial barriers, it also creates new audiences for such notable examples as the Kern-Hammerstein Show Boat , the Gershwin-Heyward Porgy and Bess , the Rodgers-Hammerst… Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 13
- There have been a few exceptions, such as A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) and Nine (1982), but the odds are against success: over three dozen musicals set wholly (or partially) in Italy have floundered on Broadway, Off-Broadway, or on the road. Seven alone opened during the 1950s; besides The Liar… Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 61
- Frank Loesser’s The Most Happy Fella (1956), Leonard Bernstein’s Candide (1956), and Blitzstein’s Juno (1959). Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 320
- Robert Rounseville created the title role in the original Broadway production of Candide. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 399
- The London production had a short run, and an attempt to resuscitate the musical with some of the original cast members reprising their Broadway roles went nowhere. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 599
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Candide at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.