Candide The Royal National Theatre Version
Music by Leonard Bernstein
Book adapted from Voltaire by Hugh Wheeler
New Lyrics by John Caird
Lyrics by Richard Wilbur Additional lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, John La Touche, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker and Leonard Bernstein Directed by Rupert Hands - Musical Director Leo Munby Choreography by Sarah Golding - Set and Costume Design by Rhyannon Richardson Lighting Design by Peter Harrison - Sound Design by Daniel Higgott Orchestrations by Jason Carr Performed by Mountview’s Third Year BA (Hons) Performance - Musical Theatre students Technical roles by Mountview’s Theatre Production Arts students
29 April - 7 May 2021 Mountview Theatre, Peckham
This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International (Europe). All authorised performance materials are also supplied by MTI Europe. mtishows.co.uk
Photo by RULER
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‘This is a story rich and rare of philosophic interplay twixt optimism and despair…’ Our eponymous hero Candide survives numerous disasters but never gives up on his optimistic pursuit of love and truth, and his journey of discovery is anything but dull. Through anguish, despair, euphoria and joy Leonard Bernstein’s exquisite musical proves that ‘life is happiness indeed’.
CAST
KEY:
MAX BOWKER
RACHEL BREEZE
ABBY FELL
GABE HAMPTON-SAINT
DANIEL HARRIOTT
AMELIA HARRISON
Maximillian (V) ∙ High Inquisitor ∙ Ensemble
Paquette (V) ∙ Stanislaus ∙ Ensemble
Theodore ∙ Ensemble
Pangloss (B) ∙ High Inquisitor ∙ Ensemble
Candide (B) ∙ Señore ∙ Ensemble
Marta (V) ∙ Ensemble
LAUREN HARTLEY
BEN JOYCE
KAINE LAWRENCE
DANIEL LUIZ
BROOKE MAGEE
DEAN
Old Woman (V) ∙ Ensemble
Don Issacar ∙ Vanderdendur ∙ Ensemble
Grand Inquisitor ∙ Señore ∙ Cacambo
Captain ∙ James ∙ Ensemble Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation Scholar
Hermann Augustus ∙ Ensemble Lonsdale Scholar for Vocal Excellence
Candide (V) ∙ Señore ∙ Ensemble
SADI MASEGO
GEORGIA MASON
JACK OFRECIO
NATHANIA ONG
AYESHA PATEL
JACK POWELL
Tsar Ivan ∙ Ensemble
Marta (B) ∙ Ensemble
King of Eldorado ∙ Ensemble
Cunegonde (V) ∙ Ensemble
Cunegonde (B) ∙ Ensemble
Pangloss (V) ∙ High Inquisitor ∙ Ensemble
LAURA RAINERI
LIV SHERRY
JO STEPHENSON
HOLLY WAKEFIELD
SAMUEL WOLSTENHOLME
IVERSON YABUT
Old Woman (B) ∙ Ensemble
Sultan Achmet ∙ Queen of Eldorado ∙ Ensemble
Charles Edward ∙ Ensemble
Paquette (B) ∙ Stanislaus ∙ Ensemble
Corporal ∙ Governor of Montevideo ∙ Ensemble
Maximillian (B) ∙ High Inquisitor ∙ Ensemble
Voltaire Cast (V)
Bernstein Cast (B)
DURATION 145 MINUTES
MAKOWSKI-CLAYTON
BAND
ACCORDION LOUSIA GREEN BASS JESS MARTIN CELLO ANGUS MCCALL HARP CATRIN MEEK
KEYBOARD MICHAEL CULLEN PERCUSSION TRISTAN BUTLER REEDS HANNAH LAWRENCE TROMBONE RHI HARRISON
TRUMPET MARK HARRISON VIOLIN ATHENA OCTAVIA
DIRECTOR RUPERT HANDS
ASSISTANT MUSICAL DIRECTOR MICHEAL CULLEN *
LX PROGRAMMER RUTH HARVEY †
DEPUTY LEAD CARPENTER TOM BARNETT
MUSICAL DIRECTOR LEO MUNBY
PRODUCTION MANAGER DAVIN PATRICK
LX NO. 3 JOSHUA ROONEY-WALKER †
LEAD SCENIC ARTIST/PROP MAKER MORWENNA GOODBAN
CHOREOGRAPHER SARAH GOLDING
ASSISTANT PRODUCTION MANAGER FRANCESCA MCEWEN †
LX NO. 4 EFA GREGORY †
DEPUTY SCENIC ARTIST/PROP MAKER EMMA FROUD
SET & COSTUME DESIGNER RHYANNON RICHARDSON
STAGE MANAGER SHANEICE BROWN †
LX NO. 5 ZIHAIRE ADAMS †
VOICE COACH LAURA NEEL
LIGHTING DESIGNER PETER HARRISON
DEPUTY STAGE MANAGER LYDIA HOLFORD †
PRODUCTION SOUND ENGINEER WAYNE HARRIS
SOUND DESIGNER DANIEL HIGGOTT
REHEARSAL ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER SHANNON POLLARD †
ASSISTANT PRODUCTION SOUND ENGINEER ETHAN TRAYNOR †
CAMERA OPERATORS CECILE FRAY IAN S. MURPHY † JAHMAL SWABY †
PRODUCTION
ORCHESTRATOR JASON CARR
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER (BOOK COVER) NATASHA GUZEL †
CAMERA DIRECTOR GAVIN HALES
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERS MADDIE LAWLESS † JONATHAN SCOUSE †
WARDROBE SUPERVISOR KATIE HIGGINS ASSISTANT DIRECTOR SAM TANNENBAUM **
PRODUCTION LX COLIN EVERSDIJK †
SOUND OPERATOR LAURIE KIRKBY SOUND NO. 2 NATHAN BROWN † SOUND NO. 3 FRANCESCA MAI †
* MA Musical Direction student ** MA Theatre Directing student † Theatre Production Arts student
THANKS TO
AUTOGRAPH SOUND RECORDING WHITE LIGHT LTD
LEAD CARPENTER EMMA HAYWARD
RUPERT HANDS Director
RHYANNON RICHARDSON Set and Costume Designer
Directing: All That I Am, Spring Awakening, Between Riverside and Crazy, Company (Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama), Next To Normal, Assassins (Royal Academy of Music), Cabaret (London College of Music), Pericles (LAMDA), Fox (Old Red Lion), Blackbird (Other Room, Cardiff), The Secret Garden (Ambassadors), Krindlekrax (Shoreditch Town Hall). Associate/Assistant Director for Jamie Lloyd: Cyrano de Bergerac, Evita, Pinter at the Pinter, Apologia, The Ruling Class, The Pitchfork Disney, Assassins (West End). Other Associate Director credits include: King Lear, Glengarry Glen Ross, Hobson’s Choice (West End), Grey Gardens (Southwark), Beautiful Thing (UK tour), The Rehearsal (Chichester), Hamlet (Theatr Clwyd).
Rhyannon has been working in professional theatre for over 20 years, both as a set and costume designer and as a maker. Much of her work has been with community groups, theatre in education and drama schools, but she has also designed for a wide range of both small and large scale productions and tours, including the Chester Mystery Plays. She also designs for events, festivals and theme parks, and works as a mural artist and illustrator.
LEO MUNBY Musical Director Credits as Musical Director: BKLYN (Lambert Jackson Productions), The Last Five Years (Minack Theatre, Cornwall), Gypsy (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester), Guys and Dolls (Mountview), Dogfight (Southwark Playhouse), Project Broadway (Symphony Space, New York), Music Theatre Group (National Theatre Studio). As Musical Supervisor: The Secret Society of Leading Ladies (The Barn Theatre), An Evening with Jason Robert Brown and Special Guests (Theatre Royal Haymarket). As Music Assistant: Company (Gielgud Theatre). As Composer: STOP with Annabel Mutale Reed. SARAH GOLDING Choreographer Co-founder of SAY Dance. Credits include: Cruise (Duchess Theatre), Balletboyz - The Intro, Blood and Belif (U.Mi-1 London Fashion week 21), The Conversations With X (Trinity Laban), Primetime (Royal Court), TRANSIT-20 (Dance film), The Album (SAY), Becoming Shades (Chivaree Circus). Performer credits: STOMP (Ambassadors Theatre/world tour, Glynis Henderson Productions), The Deluge (Lîla Dance), Us (Cathy Waller Company), Shame (bangbangbang group), The Internet is Serious Business (Royal Court), Love_Dances (Adam Russell), Triptych (Quang Kien Van).
WARNING
PETER HARRISON Lighting Designer Peter trained at RADA. Lighting Design credits include Pink Mist (Bristol Old Vic), Macbeth (Stafford Festival Shakespeare), Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar (Guildford Shakespeare Company), Paul Bunyan (Welsh National Youth Opera), Wilde Creatures (Tall Stories), In Nocentes and Home Turf (Sadler’s Wells), and Jean and Antonin (Gartnerplatz Theatre, Munich). As an Associate Lighting Designer his work includes Betrayal (West End and Broadway), Collaborators, As You Like It (National Theatre), Made in Dagenham (Adelphi Theatre), and The Commitments (Palace Theatre). DANIEL HIGGOTT Sound Designer As Designer: Dick Whittington (Hackney Empire 2019), Aladdin (Hackney Empire 2018), Growl (UK tour), A Spoonful of Sherman (UK/ Ireland tour). As Associate Designer: Secret Cinema presents: Casino Royale, Moll Flanders (Mercury Theatre, Colchester), Secret Cinema X: Tell No One - The Handmaiden, Our Country’s Good (Royal Alexandra Theatre, Toronto), Good People (Noel Coward). As Programmer: All My Sons (Apollo Theatre), Secret Cinema presents: Romeo and Juliet, Moulin Rouge and 28 Days Later.
Candide contains scenes depicting violence, execution and sexism, and one instance of pyrotechnic devices.
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