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Candide: Worlds
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Candide is about a man who believes in the philosophy that: "what happens, happens for the best in the end." that was taught to him by his personal philosopher Dr. Panlosss. Candide goes through many, many trials and everyone he meets has had something terrible happen to them. He searches the world over for his love Cundgonde. And in the end finds that the simplest things in life: love, friends, and health are all that matters. This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher.
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Candide (Philip Quast) is the hero, the bastard son of a Westphalian aristocrat. He is taught, with the other sheltered offspring of their mythical nation, that theirs is 'the best of all possible worlds.' Their naivety... is quickly dispelled. And the show expends its enthusiasm on the misfortunes that separate Candide and his mistress, Cunegonde, and the trials by war, ravishment and torture that best the other innocent Westphalians.
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Cunégonde, her servant, and Candide steal away to Buenos Aires and the New World. Cunégonde's servant is "the old woman" (Fr. la vieille), the daughter of a fictional Pope Urban X and a princess of Palestrina; she has had one buttock cut off by starving soldiers under siege.[40] They are tracked to the Americas and forced to flee. Candide's manservant, Cacambo, appears and leads his master to Paraguay without Cunégonde. Cacambo (from the Spanish word "caca"[41]) is a very practical valet of diverse ethnic background. At a border post on the way, Cacambo and Candide speak to the commandant, who turns out to be Cunégonde's brother.
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........Candide roams the countryside. When he arrives tired, hungry, and cold in the nearby town of Waldberghoff-trarb-dikdorff, two Bulgars clap him in irons, haul him off to their regiment, and teach him to march, shoot, and take beatings. One day, after he wanders off innocently, four Bulgars catch up with him, arrest him, throw him in a dungeon, and offer him this choice: Run the gauntlet thirty-six times through the regiment’s two thousand soldiers or be shot twelve times in the head. Candide chooses the gauntlet. After two passes through, he is half-dead–all the skin ripped from his back–and he requests to be shot. But before the soldiers can grant his wish, the Bulgar King happens by and pardons Candide, believing him ignorant of the ways of the world.
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Candide is based on a famous novel by Voltaire, a satiric story about an innocent young man who believes that eventually all is for the best, in this best of all possible worlds. He and his friends survive any number of disasters, always continuing their optimistic search for this "best of all possible worlds". Sondheim is only peripherally connected with this show, having written additional lyrics for the 1973 and 1997 revivals.
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Consequently, although the world of Candide is crammed with absurd and ridiculous events, the existence of Eldorado suggests that there could be something better if men were more in harmony with the nature of the world and of God. God is rather like the lord described by the Dervish who sends a ship full of goods to another country, but does not worry about the condition of the mice in the hold. But the ship is in good condition, and the voyage has a purpose, to the lord, if not to the mice.
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