“Man of La Mancha” is not your regular musical. With the drama of “Les Mis” and the dark comedy of something like “Assasins,” it definitely brought something new to the musical theatre table. The characters and songs are truly iconic and it is not a show to be missed. Mitch Leigh and Joe Darion create ...
How many earnest high school drama students have poured their hearts into singing “… to dream the impossible dream, to fight the unbeatable foe … to bear with unbearable sorrow, to run where the brave dare not go?” It must be a considerable number. Maybe it’s me, but the words can easily bring a lump ...
The novel City of Glass, originally penned by Paul Auster in 1985, was subsequently adapted into a graphic novel by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli in 2004. It closely resembles Cervantes’s 1605 masterwork Don Quixote in the delusion of its main character, and in its author’s intent. The graphic novel version of City of Glass’s ...
In the novel Don Quixote and the play Tartuffe neither Don Quixote nor Orgon feared women. Don Quixote thought himself a romantic and loved women, specifically his lady, Aldonza Lorenzo, whom he called “Dulcinea del Toboso” (1531). Orgon was anything but a romantic. He paid no attention to his wife, Elmire, and treated his daughter, ...
With National Dance Week on the horizon, I thought it only appropriate to acknowledge some of the world’s best ballerinas. Most dance enthusiasts already know about Anna Pavlova, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Marie Salle. However, they were not the only men and women of note. Here’s a quick rundown on five more: Marie Anne de Cupis ...
Spain, at the time of Cervantes, was just emerging from the Middle Ages, later than, say, Italy. It was a time when tales of knights errant and the age of chivalry had just about glutted the market for those who cared about those things. So, Cervantes created Don Quixote, a “different” sort of knight, and ...
