Shows · Man of La Mancha · Martin Beck Theatre, 2002
The run closed August 31, 2003
- Opened
- December 5, 2002
- Closed
- August 31, 2003
- Performances
- 304
- Previews
- Unknown
- Theatre
- Al Hirschfeld Theatre
Of the 397 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and carry a performance count, this is the 73rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Man of La Mancha 4 more that season
| 1965 | ANTA Washington Square Theatre Original · Albert Marre | 2,328 perf. |
| 1972 | Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival · Albert Marre | 140 perf. |
| 1977 | Palace Theatre Revival · Albert Marre | 124 perf. |
| 1992 | Marquis Theatre Revival · Albert Marre | 108 perf. |
Who was in it24 named
Don Mayo
Frederick B Owens
Jamie Torcellini
Timothy J Alex
Wilson Mendieta
Michelle Rios
Dennis Stowe
Allyson Tucker
16 of these 24 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 8 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Jonathan Kent
- Choreographer
- Luis Perez
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 0 from 0 nominations
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Recordings 11 held for the work
None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Man of La Mancha, and nothing says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.
Around this production
Man of La Mancha is a 1965 musical with a book by Dale Wasserman, music by Mitch Leigh, and lyrics by Joe Darion. It is adapted from Wasserman's non-musical 1959 teleplay I, Don Quixote, which was in turn inspired by Miguel de Cervantes and his 17th-century novel 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. The work is not and does not pretend to be a faithful rendition of either Cervantes's life or Don Quixote. Wasserman complained repeatedly about people taking the work as a musical version of Don Quixote. The original 1965 Broadway production ran…
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What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- Which of the 11 recordings of Man of La Mancha document this run, if any.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.
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