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Man of La Mancha is a 1965 Broadway musical in one act which tells the story of the classic novel Don Quixote as a play within a play, performed by Miguel de Cervantes and his fellow prisoners as he awaits a hearing with the Spanish Inquisition. It is performed on a single set, arranged to vaguely suggest a dungeon. All changes in location are suggested by alterations in the lighting and by the creative use of props supposedly lying around the floor of the dungeon; there are no detailed stage sets. This was done to encourage the participation of the audience's imagination in the enjoyment of the show. (More recent productions, however, have added more scenery.)The book was by Dale Wasserman, lyrics by Joe Darion, and music by Mitch Leigh: one song, "The Quest (The Impossible Dream)", was particularly popular."Man of La Mancha" started its life as a non-musical teleplay written by Dale Wasserman for CBS's Dupont Show of the Month program. This original staging starred Lee J. Cobb, probably best known for his portrayal of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. The Dupont Corporation disliked the title Man of La Mancha because its viewing audience would not know what La Mancha actually is, either on a geographical or symbolic nature, so a new title, I, Don Quixote, was chosen. Upon its telecast, the play won much critical acclaim.Years after this television broadcast, and after the original teleplay had been unsuccessfully optioned as a non-musical Broadway play, director Albert Marre called Wasserman and suggested that he turn his play into a musical. Mitch Leigh was selected as composer. The original lyricist of the musical was world-renowned poet W. H. Auden, but his lyrics were discarded, some of them overtly satiric and biting, attacking the bourgeois audience at times.An interesting side note: Mitch Leigh did not play any instrument while writing the score to Man of La Mancha. He submitted songs for the production on cassette tapes, already fully orchestrated and performed by professional musicians (it is a custom on Broadway for professional orchestrators other than the composer to arrange instrumental parts for musicals. Mitch Leigh's work, which won him the Tony Award for Best Original Score, was therefore notable because the company that Leigh founded, Music Makers, Inc., orchestrated the work under his very direct supervision). Leigh scored the piece for a flute (which alternates on piccolo), an oboe, a clarinet, a bassoon (which alternates as the second clarinet), 2 B-flat trumpets, 2 horns, two trombones (one tenor and one bass), one timpanist (playing either two or three timpani), two percussionists playing 14 instruments, 2 Spanish guitars and one string bass. In addition, in two scenes on-stage guitars accompany singers. Leigh's ensemble, as opposed to the traditional Broadway orchestra, had only one bowed string instrument and was virtually a wind band with guitars. The film version of the show, orchestrated and conducted by Laurence Rosenthal, did add strings to the orchestration, although very discreetly.The musical first opened at the Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut in 1964. Rex Harrison was to be the original star of this production, but soon lost interest when he discovered the songs must actually be sung. Michael Redgrave was also considered for the role
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