Man of La Mancha: A Musical Play

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

“To me probably the most interesting aspect of the success of Man of La Mancha is the truth that it plows squarely upstream against the present current of philosophy within the theater. That current is Easiest identified by its catch-labels–Theater of the Absurd, Black Comedy, the Theater of Cruelty–which is to mention the theater of alienation, of moral anarchy and despair. To the practitioners of the ones philosophies Man of La Mancha will have to seem hopelessly naive in its espousal of illusion as man’s strongest spiritual need, probably the most meaningful function of his imagination. But I have no unhappiness about that. “Facts are the enemy of truth,” says Cervantes-Don Quixote. And that may be precisely what I felt and meant.”–Dale Wasserman, from the Preface.

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