And in "gay"-free OneNewsNow World (see the post below), Cunegonde's aria from Lenny Bernstein's "Candide" would be "Glitter and be homosexual"?

This is Kristen Chenoweth, and boy, if she had done it with a serious director who wanted to play it for real rather than for cheap comedy, could she have made something of this glorious piece!

It would be a lot funnier too. What's funny about the piece is that Cunegonde wants so badly to believe that she is a sensitive, tragic sufferer, and that the vapid pleasure-loving slut is just "a role I play," but since the truth is more nearly the reverse, she just can't keep the other stuff from slipping out.

Still, our Kristen sings the dickens out of the thing.

Note to those who dread ingesting even a particle of culture: Once you get through the slow section and then the faster section to the really fast section, I guarantee you you'll recognize it. You'll say, "Oh, that's Candide?"

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