Candide, Menier Chocolate Factory
How do you solve a problem like...no, not Maria, Candide? Musicals are loved for their scores " and Leonard Bernstein's one for this really is a cracker " but they're held together by their books, i.e. the script/dramatic context that makes audiences care about the characters and plot. Filled to bursting with good intentions, Matthew White's exuberantly rough'n'tumble new Menier production does its damnedest but ther…