The best of all possible Candides
Geoff Packard and Lauren Molina in a touching reunion from Candide.Sometimes the theatrical gods smile upon folly, and they're all but beaming right now at the Huntington, where Mary Zimmerman's improbable renovation of Candide is unfurling in a surprising burst of glory. For the history of this musical has, in fact, been almost a mirror of the tale it tells; the adaptation of Voltaire's Candide for the Br…