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 · A musical film adaptation of Miguel de Cervantes' novel about the mad nobleman Don Quixote and his adventures. Starring Peter O'Toole, Sophia Loren and James Coco, directed by Arthur Hiller, with songs by Mitch Leigh and Joe Darion.
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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 ...
Learn about the Tony Award-winning musical based on Cervantes' novel Don Quixote, set in a prison during the Spanish Inquisition. Find out the story, the songs, the cast, and the context of this classic show.
A musical adaptation of Miguel de Cervantes' novel Don Quixote, set in a dungeon where the author stages a play to save his manuscript. Follow the adventures of the mad nobleman and his squire as they fight windmills, duel giants, and woo Dulcinea.
Roger Ebert criticizes the musical adaptation of Cervantes's story, starring Peter O'Toole and Sophia Loren, as uninspired and dull. He argues that the film fails to capture the fantasy and the message of the original tale, and that O'Toole should not have been cast as a singer.
