A View from the Cliff: “Candide” at Theater 2020 in Brooklyn Heights
BY CLIFF KASDEN
What is the meaning of life? No idea? Perhaps the irreverent, bawdy but beautiful performers of Theater 2020 (Visions for a New Millennium) in Brooklyn Heights have an answer. Their version of “Candide” with music by Leonard Bernstein and additional lyrics by Stephen Sondheim is the road to enlightenment.
Call it an operetta or musical satire. Artistic Director David Fuller describes it as that special intersection where “guerilla theater meets morality play.” Its current geographical intersection is St. Charles Borromeo Church at the corner of Aitken and Sidney Places (between Joralemon and State Streets).