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''Man of La Mancha'' is a 1964 musical with a book by Dale Wasserman, lyrics by Joe Darion, and music by Mitch Leigh. It is adapted from Wasserman's non-musical 1959 teleplay ''I, Don Quixote'', which was in turn inspired by Miguel de Cervantes and his seventeenth-century masterpiece ''Don Quixote''. It tells the story of the "mad" knight, Don Quixote, as a play within a play, performed by Cervantes and his fellow prisoners as he awaits a hearing with the Spanish Inquisition.〔('Man of La Mancha' synopsis ) guidetomusicaltheatre.com. Retrieved January 27, 2010〕 The work is not, and does not pretend to be, a faithful rendition of either Cervantes' life or of ''Don Quixote''. Wasserman complained repeatedly about taking the work as a musical version of ''Don Quixote''.〔"''Don Quixote'' as Theatre", ''Cervantes'' (journal of the Cervantes Society of America), vol. 19, number 1, 1999, pp. 125-30, http://users.ipfw.edu/jehle/cervante/csa/artics99/wasserma.htm. Retrieved September 25, 2014.〕〔"A Diary for ''I, Don Quixote''", ''Cervantes'' (journal of the Cervantes Society of America), vol. 21, no. 2, 2001, pp. 117-123, on page 123; http://users.ipfw.edu/jehle/cervante/csa/articf01/diary.pdf. Retrieved September 25, 2014.〕 The original 1965 Broadway production ran for 2,328 performances and won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical. The musical has been revived four times on Broadway, becoming one of the most enduring works of musical theatre.〔('Man of La Mancha' Broadway listings, 1965, 1972, 1977, 1992, and 2002 ) Internet Movie Database. Retrieved January 26, 2010〕 The principal song, "The Impossible Dream", became a standard. The musical has played in many other countries around the world, with productions in Dutch, French (translation by Jacques Brel), German, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Icelandic, Gujarati, Uzbek, Hungarian, Serbian, Slovenian, Swahili, Finnish, Ukrainian and nine distinctly different dialects of the Spanish language.〔("La Mancha" history ) theatre-musical.com. Retrieved January 27, 2010〕 ''Man of La Mancha'' was first performed at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut in 1965, and had its New York premiere on the thrust stage of the ANTA Washington Square Theatre in 1965.〔Abbe A. Debolt: ''Encyclopedia of the Sixties: A Decade of Culture and Counterculture''. ABC-CLIO, 2011, ISBN 9780313329449, pp. 389-390 ()〕 ==History== ''Man of La Mancha'' started as a non-musical teleplay written by Dale Wasserman for CBS's ''DuPont Show of the Month'' program. This original telecast starred Lee J. Cobb, Colleen Dewhurst (who replaced Viveca Lindfors), and Eli Wallach, and was not performed on a thrust stage, but on a television sound stage. The DuPont Corporation disliked the title ''Man of La Mancha'', thinking that its viewing audience would not know what La Mancha actually meant, so a new title, ''I, Don Quixote'', was chosen. The play was broadcast live on November 9, 1959, with an estimated audience of 20 million.〔Wasserman, Dale. ''The impossible musical'' (2003). Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 1-55783-515-2, pp. 48–53〕 Unfortunately, due to the production being staged in the early days of videotape, and due to the inferiority of kinescopes, no footage of this production survives. 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, with orchestrations by Carlyle W. Hall. Unusually for the time, the show was scored for an orchestra with no violins or other traditional orchestral stringed instruments apart from a double bass, instead making heavier use of brass, woodwinds, percussion and utilizing flamenco guitars as the only stringed instruments of any sort.〔(Synopsis and song lyrics ) AllMusicals.com. Retrieved January 27, 2010〕 The original lyricist of the musical was poet W. H. Auden, but his lyrics were discarded, some of them considered too overtly satiric and biting, attacking the bourgeois audience at times. Auden's lyrics were replaced by those of Joe Darion.〔(www.Broadway.tv article "Broadway Hidden Treasures Revealed" ) 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Man of La Mancha」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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