Yes it is the right ending for the show. All through it Candide, Cunegonde, and the others have gone through a tortuous series of cataclysmic events that FINALLY shows them the way forward which is to settle down, take care of each other and "Make Our Garden Grow."
Also, if you study the score carefully, each of Candide's solos uses his motif and alters it just a little. Finally it comes into harmonic focus as the opening of Garden. BTW, part of this comes from appearing in the first NYC revival (1970) of the original version, but with much music restored and mostly conducted by Leonard Bernstein. |
