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Candide, 1959

Shows · Candide · Shaftesbury Theatre, 1959

Candide
We hold no picture of this staging. This one is filed against Candide and could document any of its runs. None
Transfer West EndShaftesbury Theatre

The run dates incomplete

Opened
April 30, 1959
Closed
Unknown
Performances
Unknown
Previews
Unknown

We don't have a performance count. A blank here means the count is unknown, not a short run.

No closing date. At this distance that most likely means nobody wrote down when it ended, rather than that the run went on.

Other stagings of Candide 5 more that season

1933 Booth Theatre Original 8 perf.
1956 Martin Beck Theatre Revival · Tyrone Guthrie 73 perf.
1963 Transfer Transfer
1974 Broadway Theatre Revival · Patricia Birch 740 perf.
1997 Gershwin Theatre Revival · Harold Prince 104 perf.

Who was in itnone yet

No cast list for this production.

Recordings 18 held for the work

no art held
Candide Deutsche Grammophon 429 735-2; Deutsche Grammophon 429 736-2; BM…
no art held
Candide Columbia Masterworks OL 5180. 1956
no art held
Candide (1956 original Broadway cast) CBS Records Masterworks MK 38732. 1987
no art held
Candide Musical Heritage Society MHS 512494X. 1990
no art held
Candide Deutsche Grammophon 429 734-2; ? 429 735-2; ? 429 736-2. September 3, 1991
no art held
Candide (1956 original Broadway cast) Sony Broadway SK 48017. November 15, 1991
no art held
Candide (1956 original Broadway cast) Sony Broadway ST 48017. November 15, 1991
no art held
Candide (1956 original Broadway cast) Sony Broadway SK 48017. February 3, 1992
no art held
Candide TER MUS C N31. 1995
no art held
Candide ? 429 735-2; ? 429 736-2; Deutsche Grammophon 449-656-2. April 15, 1997
no art held
Candide: The New Broadway Cast Recording RCA Victor 09026-68835-2. July 29, 1997
no art held
Candide (1999 Royal National Theatre cast) First Night Records Cast CD 75. 2000
no art held
Candide (1956 original Broadway cast) Sony Classical SK 86859. 2003
no art held
Candide Deutsche Grammophon 474 472-2. 2003
no art held
Candide (1974 Broadway revival cast) Masterworks Broadway 82876 88391-2. August 29, 2006
no art held
West Side Story / Candide Not Now Music M2CD012. 2012
no art held
Candide LSO Live LSO0834. October 15, 2021
no art held
Candide LSO Live. October 15, 2021

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Candide, and nothing says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.

What this page does not know

  • No photograph of this staging.
  • No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
  • Which of the 18 recordings of Candide document this run, if any.
  • When it closed.
  • No performance count.
  • No director named.
  • Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.

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