Name: impossible musical
Rating: 3 (19 reviews)
ISBN: 9781557835154

Format
351 pages, Hardcover
First published
2003
Publishers
Applause Theatre & Cinema Books
Subjects
Wasserman·Dale
Language
English

About Dale Wasserman

Dale Wasserman was an American playwright.His protagonists are a bit like Wasserman himself: raffish rebels, fiercely independent fools—poets, madmen and misfits—societal outcasts who defy authority and "tilt at windmills," reluctant heroes (sometimes anti-heroes), who are called upon to make some extraordinary sacrifice in order to protect or preserve their personal freedom or that of others..

Great book.

Fabulously interesting read. Would have given it 5 stars, but there is unnecessary language in it that totally detracts from it, slaps you in the face and does nothing to advance the information he is conveying.

This book is much broader than its title indicates. It's the odyssey of a remarkable man--from riding the rails and being a hobo at 14, to becoming a much honored playwright and world traveler whose views of world are reflected in his work.

If you're going to be involved in a production of "Man of La Mancha", read this book. If you've every been involved in a production of "Man of La Mancha", read this book.

Dale Wasserman seems from this account to be pretty much full of himself. But his arrogance is balanced by his disdain for almost everybody else he's ever worked with (except Joan Deiner, whom he must have had some sort of thing for.

This book is the story of how the now-classic Broadway musical "Man of La Mancha" came to be written, and of its various productions, including the much-maligned 1972 film version. Its 87 year old author, Dale Wasserman, not only wrote the script of the musical as well as the film's screenplay, but also wrote its source, the 1959 non-musical TV play, "I, Don Quixote", which was broadcast during the Golden Age of live TV drama and, as of now, still has never been repeated on television nor issued on video.

This riveting romp of a read is as deep as the reader is prepared to probe--a rollicking airport diversion, or an insightful examination of man's condition. For those who crave celebrities in unusal positions--naked Kirk Douglas raging at the staff of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (the stage version)for example,this will delight.

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