Posted: 5/2/15 at 3:22pm
Some great clips BWW has provided for the 50th anniversary of the show.
Iconic performances by Richard Kiley and Joan Diener.
Add to more recent turns by Brian Stokes Mitchell and Marin Mazzie.
I still think "The Impossible Dream" is one of the more beautiful songs to grace the stages of Broadway.
A very different type of show with some gorgeous music.
Posted: 5/2/15 at 3:28pm
What's this about an early tv production with... wait for it.... Lee J. Cobb and Colleen Dewhurst?
Get out!https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/FLASH-FRIDAY-MAN-OF-LA-MANCHA-Prepares-To-March-Back-To-Broadway-For-Its-50th-Birthday-20150501
Posted: 5/2/15 at 7:03pm
There's a rumor going around that Dale Wasserman's widow is looking for a chance for MAN OF LA MANCHA to return to Broadway since the musical turned 50. Good grief, I like the show just fine but can't we have a revival of CAMELOT first before that show get's revived? If we do get a revival, could we have James Barbour as Don Quixote please?
BTW: I found a video of Ron Raines playing Don Quixote and his vocals were so strong that I think that Richard Kiley himself would've approved of.
Posted: 5/2/15 at 7:31pm
Camelot.....that is one show I've never seen. In the scores of Broadway shows I've seen in my 50 years, no less. That's almost sacrilege. I would love to see that revived again. Regarding MOLM though, I'll have to take a look at Raines. I read that Kiley once said it was hard for him to see others play the role, as good as so many of them were. That role was like his baby.
Posted: 5/2/15 at 8:13pm
Posted: 5/6/15 at 10:51pm
Paulo Szot as Don Quixote, Josh Gad as Sancho Panza, and Sierra Boggess as Aldonza. That cast I could pay to see.
Posted: 5/6/15 at 10:54pm
Anthony Warlow IS RIGHT HERE.
Posted: 5/6/15 at 11:25pm
The widow Wasserman saw the extraordinary DC Shakespeare Theatre production starring Warlow and it supposedly inspired her to consider a 50th anniversary production of her own devising with "stars". A smart producer would grab that production lock, stock and barrel but the widow is so difficult that no one wants to get in bed with her. Since Mitch Leigh died last year she now has all of the power but little taste or know-how.
Updated On: 5/6/15 at 11:25 PM
Posted: 5/7/15 at 7:29pm
I saw the amazing Shakespeare Theatre production and thought it's better than a lot of the shows that got to broadway. I don't know how would they define "stars" but Anthony Warlow has proven himself perfect in this role. Why look elsewhere? Well, they may think he's not a box office attraction here like he is in Australia, but I can't think of a broadway veteran who really is nowadays.
Posted: 5/8/15 at 12:18am
Why not Josh Grobin? He can sing the hell out of the score and put behinds in seats. On his new CD, Stages, he sings a beautiful rendition of Dulcinea, from Man of La Mancha. The whole album is beautiful, imho.
Posted: 5/8/15 at 1:45pm
It always peeved me that Jack Jones' torpid recording of "The Impossible Dream" became a hit record while the splendor of the late Richard Kiley was heard by few.
