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Podcast: The Music Show
Episode: Eddie Perfect gets candid about Candide and Forest Collective enter the Labyrinth
Description: Eddie Perfect has been to Broadway and back with music theatre composer credits including Beetlejuice and King Kong, not to mention home-grown hit Shane Warne: The Musical. Now he’s set to play as Dr Pangloss and Voltaire in Leonard Bernstein’s exquisitely convoluted opera Candide with Victorian Opera, and he talks to Andy about how a work written during McCarthyism, based on a novel written during the 7 Years War, finds new resonance now.While the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur has had countless retellings, in operas, plays, movies and more, none have been quite like Laby...