Man of La Mancha (1965)

by Dale Wasserman, Joe Darion, Mitch Leigh

Members	Reviews	Popularity	Average rating	Mentions
135	1	80,885	(4.57)	2

Add to your library

Add to wishlist

all members

▾Members

Recently added by

uarkdramlibrary2, Mad_Mac, rhea7897, Frankel_Library, mkbird, WMTSD, psalm134_2, josh.altorfer3179

numbers

show all

▾Tags

12 (1) 16th century (1) 20th century (3) American (1) british/american drama (1) broadway musical (1) CD (1) classics (3) comedy (2) Don Quixote (4) drama (13) fiction (8) historical fiction (2) history (1) Libretti (2) libretto (3) lp (1) music (3) musical (11) musical theatre (5) Performing Arts (1) play (9) play(s) (2) plays (15) plays by author (2) script (11) Spain (3) theatre (12) to-read (1) used (1)

▾LibraryThing recommendations

Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein (1964)
The Fantasticks by Tom Jones (1968)
1776: A Musical Play (Penguin Plays) by Sherman Edwards (1970)
Company by Stephen Sondheim (1970)
Grease: A New '50's Rock'n' Roll Musical by Jim Jacobs (1972)

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Applause Musical Library) by Burt Shevelove (1990)
The Hot L Baltimore by Lanford Wilson (1973)
Pacific Overtures by Stephen Sondheim (1977)
Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim (1989)
Cabaret: The Illustrated Book and Lyrics by Joe Masteroff (1973)

see more recommendations for this work

refresh

▾Member recommendations

None.

▾Will you like it?

▾Member reviews

One of the few musicals that reads extremely well on the page (as long as you know the songs and can sing or hum along in your head as you read). (

)

mritchie56 | Oct 27, 2007 |

▾Published reviews

no reviews | add a review

▾Other authors

» Add other authors (3 possible)

Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Dale Wasserman	—	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Darion, Joe	—	main author	all editions	confirmed
Leigh, Mitch	—	main author	all editions	confirmed

▾Work-to-work relationships

Is contained in

Great Musicals of the American Theatre Volume 2 by Stanley Richards

Contains

Man of La Mancha (Vocal Score) by Mitch Leigh

Man of La Mancha: Vocal Selections by Dale Wasserman

Was inspired by

Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes

Has as a study

The Impossible Musical: The "Man of la Mancha" Story by Dale Wasserman

view history

▾Common Knowledge

You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.

For more help see the Common Knowledge help page.

Series (with order)

Canonical title

Original title

Alternative titles

Original publication date

1965

1966

People/Characters

Don Quixote de la Mancha

Important places

Important events

Related movies

Man of La Mancha (1972 ∙ IMDb)

Awards and honors

New York Drama Critics Award

Epigraph

Dedication

First words

Quotations

Last words

Disambiguation notice

Publisher's editors

Blurbers

Publisher series

▾References

References to this work on external resources.

Wikipedia in English

None

▾LibraryThing members' description

Book description

Haiku summary

▾Book descriptions

Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0394406192, Paperback)

Winner of the New York Drama Critics Award for Best Musical, 1966

"To me the most interesting aspect of the success of Man of La Mancha is the fact that it plows squarely upstream against the prevailing current of philosophy in the theater. That current is best identified by its catch-labels--Theater of the Absurd, Black Comedy, the Theater of Cruelty--which is to say the theater of alienation, of moral anarchy and despair. To the practitioners of those philosophies Man of La Mancha must seem hopelessly naive in its espousal of illusion as man's strongest spiritual need, the most meaningful function of his imagination. But I've no unhappiness about that. "Facts are the enemy of truth," says Cervantes-Don Quixote. And that is precisely what I felt and meant."--Dale Wasserman, from the Preface.

(retrieved from Amazon Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:04:53 -0400)

▾Library descriptions

Contains the script of the musical play which is based on Cervantes' classic, Don Quixote.