Candide

Douglas Morrisson Theatre
22311 North Third Street Hayward

This Royal National Theatre version of Candide finds the naïve title hero setting off to find his one true love, the beautiful Cunegonde, while enduring a series of comic misadventures that take him through wars, plagues, pirates, swindlers and even the Spanish Inquisition, sorely testing his always-optimistic faith in humanity. This delightful production of Leonard Bernstein's classic musical -- with book adapted from Voltaire by Hugh Wheeler, in a new version by John Caird -- features such songs as "Glitter and Be Gay," "Auto-da-fé" and "The Best of All Possible Worlds."