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Seeger, Guthrie Duet words), for instance, couldn't Bernstein's 'Candide' Returns to Broadway By DOUGLAS WATT There's a barrel of free peanuts and there are soft drinks for sale in the lobby of the Broadway Theater, where a circusy atmosphere has been created for Leonard in a Hi i I Llliilill drag and even confusing at times. But Prince's inventive staging, like an imaginatively prepared party with bright surprises scattered all over the place, helps compensate for the story's repeti-tiousness, as evidenced by all the smiling faces in the house. A Rich Score But the spirited and richly a I- -a Leonard Bernstein 'Irene Parties Public To celebrate the first anniversary of "Irene," Jane Powell and the cast of the musical -will give a party for the public Thursday, from noon to 2 p.m. in the lobby of Minskoff Theater. Cake and coffee will be served to one and all.

Bernstein's "Candide," which opened there last night. It's as good a way as any to approach the century's wittiest operetta score. This is the Chelsea Theater Center production, staged by Harold Prince, that played the Chelsea's loft theater in the Brooklyn Academy of Music from mid-December to mid-January. Now enclosed and carpeted walkways lead the playgoer from the lobby to his particular section of the multilevel environmental theater within. That theater, patterned by designers Eugene and Framie Lee on a larger scale than before but at the same time cutting the Broadway Theater capacity in half (to 900), consists of an intermingling of performing and spectator areas on various levels gained by means of ramps and steps.

And there are times when the performers thread their way through those spectators seated on stools in a centrally located pit (the rest are on wooden benches). Just an there are performing areas of varying shapes and sizes, so there are musicians' areas dividing the orchestra into sections (winds, strings, percussion) spotted throughout the house. Sound Is Improved It was this arrangement that bothered me most in the Brooklyn mounting. For, in addition to being thinned out by a reduced orchestra, the sound was dispersed and necessarily altered according to one's seating location. That's still true, but for some reason the orchestral sound is richer (have instruments been added?) at the Broadway and was heard to much better advantage in the seat I found myself in this time.

The book to Bernstein's "Candide," even as revised by Hugh Wheeler, is still something of a A IUCA5 Fl LTD COPPOLA CO Production CAMPING) VACATION TRAVEL Pete Seeger and Arlo Guth rie took the stage of Carnegie Hall Friday night, both in rolled-up shirtsleeves, to demonstrate how America's folk music tradi tion has survived the quarter- century age gap between them. In the first stop on a four- city tour, the two alternated songs much of the time, Seeger on acoustic guitar or his familiar five-string banjo, Guthrie on acoustic guitar or the piano. When Seeger played alone, Guthrie sat crosslegged on the floor in respecaul attention. This was a cooperative con cert, not a competition, but if points were being given, Guthrie would come off the winner. His presentation was livelier and more humorous, as opposed to Seeger's.

which tended toward the instructive and the sentimental. Audience Responsive Not that the audience didn't respond with approval to both of them. Seeger even had the audience yodeling in response to one of his songs. But there was a noticeable slowing of the pace in manv of his solos. His whistling of a Chinese Communist marching song (no racfinn Vehicle Auction Review Vehicles Ever Assembled Pirecfary "WARM, WITTY AND WONDERFUL." Hill RaidH.

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And though in choosing singers as much for their appearance and ability to move as their voices (the Candide and Cunegonde are short and comical-looking but fleet of foot) Prince has slighted the score to some extent, it is nevertheless a delight even in this cut version. The cast remains the same. Lewis H. Stadlen keeps changing voice and wigs as both Voltaire and Pangloss, and plays a couple of other people, as well. Mark Baker and Maureen Brennan are the diminutive Candide and Cunegonde, and the extremely pretty Deborah St.

Darr is the Paquette. But it is June Gable in the uncomfortable role of the single-buttocked Old Lady (a condition she never really gets to explain, in spite of a long speech followed by a throwaway line) who stops the show with the irresistible "I am easily assimilated." The book doesn't really hold up for the close to two hours' (without intermission) playing time, in spite of the ingenious production. But the circusy atmosphere helps take one's mind off it, and the scintillating music (actually very well played and conducted) would distinguish any theater. Tonight 7:30 P.M. WED.

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