Candide - 11 You were dead, you know

[pinoyidol2006]

2:36 - Where's the bird... Oh, it's Kristin Chenoweth.

[sepiaworld]

1:28 is such a spectacular musical moment <3

[AndrewRudin]

I'm coming to really hate Chenowith. Such an ungenerous collaborator. She can't share the stage with anyone. Always has to mug, and pull gimmicks and upstage who she's with, rather than playing the scene. Ugh.

[AliaSparrow]

@AndrewRudin I really disagree. If she wants to be hammy and pull gimmicks, than she can. After all, the director constructed this concert to be a comedy (look at all the props), she is spicing up the comedic tone with it. In fact, her castmembers appears to be enjoying her a lot. She just plays her character to the best when she appears and exits when it happens.

[manthasagittarius]

@AndrewRudin It might be that way if the people she was playing with were weak, but Patti Lupone can take it and give it right back, deeper if anything -- their scenes together are hilarious -- and Paul Groves is magnificent as Candide. All he has to do is stand there and let her bounce molecules off him to shine. He is giving a full-body, full-face, incredible reading of his role.

[cfjermedal]

I saw this when it came to seattle

[tommieboy1657]

I've seen the version with Bernstein conducting it, and I've seen this version, with his student Alsop conducting it, and I really don't know which one is better, because the focus is different in the two versions, which makes it very difficult, or even impossible to compare

[megarouge2001]

She's so tiny, I lvoe how he flings her around.

[SingingCatzzz]

@megarouge2001 i know shes like a doll!!!!!! xD

[Katelyn127]

lol

[Hoofer26]

Her reaction at 0:23 is hysterical!

[AaRonFLAUTIST842]

LMAO. "You were dead you know," Very romantic.

[allisonfox94]

it never explains how they come back to life does it? thats what im curious about!

[TheBohemianTenor]

@allisonfox94 "love will find a way!"

[NimrasNightpounce]

In the original text it's never explained either. I think Cunégonde says something along the lines of "people have gotten better from worse." (I've not read it in English, so my translation's a bit rough.)

[LolitaLexi]

I love the opera! Her name is latin for vulva...i was like...wow...dirty people

[megarouge2001]

I love how he swings her all over. She's so tiny!

[crazysinger111]

LMFAO!!! he twirls her and its sooo cute!!! I.L.Y Kristin!!!! wooooo!!!

[imbored1996]

hahaha omg this makes me want to cry its so cute!!! :D

[MissHBCsPoppit]

She's so small and cute and beautiful and talented and guigiyuftdy I love her!!! BREATHE

[rmtenorlirico]

I love Paul Groves, he is the best tenor i ever heard!

[dsl3x]

2:27....BRILLIANT!!

[MagTrag89]

I think it is hilarious but i don't understand it.

You know whats up there?

[figskatefan]

Read Voltaire's Candide--a satire of 18th century society. It's actually really funny.

[MagTrag89]

I did read it! I liked it, I just don't understand why they run away from each other startled at 2:27.

[LiveThruDance93]

They sing to loud, and scare each other, I think :P

[11rockabilia11]

@MagTrag89 cuz they sang really loudly all of a sudden in each other's faces and the volume startled them

[LDiaz457]

Oh my god, I laugh hysterically every time I watch this.

"ONE!!!!!"

[LVdancerbabe]

Thank you for this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <3

[mq1986]

"We'll go into that another day..." I love how you never find out how some of the characters constantly die and then inexplicably come back to life.

[jajaka]

Actually, Cunegonde is one of the characters that actually DOESN'T die. She just gets raped a lot :D.

[mq1986]

I thought she gets killed after she got raped a bunch of times. There's this one scene--I swear I remember this--where someone stabs her through with a saber.

[jajaka]

In the scene, it shows the rest of her family in a line praying, and just as she's about to get stabbed a soldier picks her up, declares how he's going to make money off of her body, and runs off stage.

This is based on the 1972 Hal Prince Revival, though. Not sure of what's in the original novel or other versions of the Operetta.

[mq1986]

Oh, yes, that's right. I think that scene is in the 1972 revival. But in the Great Performances show (the one with Kristin Chenoweth), she gets stabbed--and she goes, "Oh," and slumps over. It's pretty funny.

[bootface]

@mq1986 there is a scene they cut from this production where candide sings a song to Cunegonde's dead body. The idea is that almost every character (appart from candide) dies atleast once in the show, but they are just brought back to life by Voltare (the writer).

[ReallyBigJump]

Yes, that does happen.

Everybody but Candide dies in about the fourth scene but they *magically* come back somehow as you see them later on in the show.

[jtg10795]

@jajaka no she does die (at least in this version, idk about the others there are so many) she gets raped twice then stabbed by a sword. the battle scene is on here somewhere

[Adwoa1]

@jajaka No she doesn't get killed, but after like the very first battle/war, Candide thinks that Cunegonde has died with the rest of her family and then finds out later that everyone is alive

[Lexigiggles]

@jajaka Yay!! :D

[Fromundra]

@jajaka That comment shouldn't be that funny, but it is.

[broadwaygrl1372]

god shes so small and cute!!!!!

[blueskywisher]

i love the line: "i would do it all again"

its so funny

[foreverjynxed]

They're so adorable! :D

I love this song...

[superheathurrr]

I LOVE this song! :)

[xSpedx]

Omg. Lol. I love Cheno. <3