David Stewart, on his recent Candide experience: >Anyway I presume the whole thing was an exercise in irony was it not? Yup. You got it. IMO. >If so, Bernstein was very successful. Does anyone actually find it funny? >or just wierd? I find Candide excruciatingly funny. The original Voltaire is short and very much worth reading. The whole thing is ludicrous and delightful. I only wish I had as good an idea for an operatic treatise. (James Branch Cabell's "Jurgen", anybody? My best idea to date...) Bob K, In the Best of All Possible Jobs