“Candide” contains some of the best Bernstein: It isn’t just melodious, it is prodigiously tuney. As my companion said, “It would be hard to sleep through this.” Yet it is just as hard to stay engaged with it.
This year's International Jazz Plaza Festival in Havana included some U.S. musicians visiting for the first time, and even performances by expatriates.
Mahoney played Martin Crane, father of Kelsey Grammer's Frasier and David Hyde Pierce's Niles. The series, a hit spinoff of "Cheers," aired from 1993 to 2004.
