(Photo credit: Carlita Sari) Lillian Hellman, who suggested the idea of the musical “Candide” to the great American composer Leonard Bernstein, once described Voltaire’s original 1759 novel on which the show is based as “the greatest piece of slapdash ever written.” The novel certainly packs a breathless pace as it follows its eponymous hero on an adversity-filled journey around the {…}