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Candide, 1997

Shows · Candide · Gershwin Theatre, 1997

Candide
We hold no picture of this staging. This one is filed against Candide and could document any of its runs. None
Revival BroadwayGeorge Gershwin Theatre 104 performances

The run closed July 27, 1997

Opened
April 29, 1997
Closed
July 27, 1997
Performances
104
Previews
10

Of the 368 productions we hold that opened in the 1990s and carry a performance count, this is the 136th 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.
1956 Martin Beck Theatre Revival · Tyrone Guthrie 73 perf.
1959 Shaftesbury Theatre Transfer
1963 Transfer Transfer
1974 Broadway Theatre Revival · Patricia Birch 740 perf.

Who was in it32 named

Harolyn Blackwell
Arte Johnson
Mal Z Lawrence
D Vorah Bailey
Glenda Balkan
Mary Kate Boulware
Diana Brownstone
Alvin Crawford
Christopher F Davis
Sherrita Duran
David Girolmo
Joy Hermalyn
Allen Hidalgo
Wendy Hilliard
Elizabeth Jimenez
Julie Johnson
Ken Krugman
Chad Larget
Seth Malkin
Andrew Pacho
Nanne Puritz
Owen Taylor
Eric van Hoven
Melissa Hart
Avery Saltzman

7 of these 32 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 25 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.

Creative team

Director
Harold Prince
Choreographer
Harold Prince
Producer
Livent, Inc.

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.

Recordings 18 held for the work

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.
  • Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.

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