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Man of La Mancha is arguably the most popular musical drama of all time, most recently on Broadway starring Brian Stokes Mitchell. Dale Wasserman, however, had more trouble getting it on to a Broadway stage than Don Quixote ever had with those damn windmills. For centuries, writers all over the world had tried to stage Cervantes comic masterpiece, and all had failed.
On a sabbatical to Spain in the late 1950s, screenwriter-stage director Dale Wasserman had the insight to change that