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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...
However, given the fact that Candide is operating on a college budget, Greenhalgh saw the need to scale down and give unity to the show...
...away the best showmanship of the night came from Kate D. Greenhalgh ’05, who played the shrewish wife Grumnigra just as shrilly as the name would imply. Her performance, highly reminiscent of the squeaky-voiced Lena Lamont character in Singin’ in the Rain, often stole the show. In a way, though, her dominance was a shame; if other actors had dug into their characters as much as Greenhalgh did, they could easily have taken back some of Greenhalgh’s well-earned applause...