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Man of La Mancha (the script of the musical)
Man of La Mancha - the script of the musical Author:Dale Wasserman, Joe Darion, Mitch Leigh The original publication of the script of the Broadway musical, Man of La Manch, winner of the New York Drama Critics Award for Best Music, 1966. — "Man of La Mancha...is a triumph of creative imagination and stagecraft....it is a thoroughly triumphant enterprise, faithful to the spirit of the Spanish Classic. — Richard Watt,s, New York Post — "To ... more »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.« less