Man of La Mancha started as a non-musical teleplay written by Dale Wasserman for CBS's
Years after this television … See more

The musical first played at the Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut in 1965. Rex Harrison was to be the original star of this production, but although Harrison had starred in a musical role in the stage and film version… See more

In the late sixteenth century, failed author-soldier-actor and tax collector Miguel de Cervantes has been thrown into a dungeon by the Spanish Inquisition, along with his manservant. They have been charged with foreclosing … See more

• "Overture"
• "Man of La Mancha (I, Don Quixote)" – Don Quixote, Sancho
• "Food, Wine, Aldonza!" – Muleteers
• "It's All the Same" – Aldonza… See more

• Don Quixote: David Atkinson, Claudio Brook, John Cullum, José Ferrer, Laurence Guittard, Hal Holbrook, David Holliday, Keith Michell, Gideon Singer, Jon Cypher (u/s)
• Aldonza: Patricia Marand, Marion Marlowe… See more

• The first Spanish production opened in 1966 in Madrid, Spain, starring Nati Mistral as Aldonza and the great Spanish baritone Luis Sagi-Vela as Quixote/Cervantes. A cast album was released by Columbia Records fe… See more