Candide
- ISBN-10
- 0028704606
- ISBN-13
- 9780028704609
- Series
- Candide
- Category
- Music
- Pages
- 235
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1976
- Publisher
- Schirmer Reference
- Authors
- Hugh Wheeler, Leonard Bernstein, Richard Wilbur
Description
Broadway Theatre, the Chelsea Theatre Center of Brooklyn presents "Candide," music composed by Leonard Bernstein, book adapted from Voltaire by Hugh Wheeler, lyrics by Richard Wilbur, with additional lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and John ...
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