Peter O'Toole
Don Quixote de La Mancha/Miguel de Cervantes/Alonso Quijana
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Tony Award for Best Score. Man of La Mancha is a 1965 musical with a book by Dale Wasserman, music by Mitch Leigh, and lyrics by Joe Darion. It is adapted from Wasserman's non-musical 1959 teleplay I, Don Quixote, which was in turn inspired by Miguel de Cervantes and his 17th-century novel Don Quixote. It tells the story of the "mad" knight Don ...
- Dale Wasserman
- 1964
Sep 8, 1973 · With Peter O'Toole, Sophia Loren, James Coco, Harry Andrews. The funny story of mad but kind and chivalrous elderly nobleman Don Quixote who, aided by his squire Sancho Panza, fights windmills that are seen as dragons to save prostitute Dulcinea who is seen as a noblewoman.
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- Drama, Fantasy, Musical
- Arthur Hiller
- 1973-09-08
Man of La Mancha is a 1972 film adaptation of the Broadway musical Man of La Mancha by Dale Wasserman, with music by Mitch Leigh and lyrics by Joe Darion. The musical was suggested by the classic novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, but more directly based on Wasserman's 1959 non-musical television play I, Don Quixote, which combines a ...
Reviews. Man of La Mancha. Roger Ebert December 15, 1972. Tweet. I've always thought there was a flaw in the logic of "Man of La Mancha." What good does it do to dream the impossible dream when all you're doing anyway is killing time until the Inquisition chops your block off?
Oct 31, 2019 · 61.3M subscribers. Subscribed. 10K. 794K views 4 years ago. Man of La Mancha - The Impossible Dream: Don Quixote (Peter O'Toole) sings a song of inspiration and unwavering determination....
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Man of La Mancha, based on Cervantes’ epic 17th-century novel, Don Quixote, is a remarkable, poignant, moving musical that was one of the first shows to musicalize a piece of historical literature. Set in the context of the Spanish Inquisition, Man of La Mancha is presented as a play-within-a-play.
Summaries. The funny story of mad but kind and chivalrous elderly nobleman Don Quixote who, aided by his squire Sancho Panza, fights windmills that are seen as dragons to save prostitute Dulcinea who is seen as a noblewoman. This musical version of Don Quixote is framed by an incident allegedly from the life of its author, Miguel de Cervantes.
