Also credited on7 works
Man of La Mancha
Chu Chem
Man of La Mancha (2002 Revival)
Ain't Broadway Grand
Cry For Us All
Home Sweet Homer
Saravá
These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.
In the literature8 passages
- The whole thing is an imitation. Don Quixote was really Cervantes with costume and make-up. An imitation. To what pur- pose?The music was imitation Spanish when it remembered what it was supposed to be. Why not real Mitch Leigh if there is a real Mitch Leigh? Why should we care? Personally, I didn't. Obviously I and a few friends of mine…ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
- Mitch Leigh, his 50 percent–50 percent producing partner in the revival, wondered if Brynner would cut short the engagement and return home to Normandy. Betty Furness asked him that question in February 1985. Brynner responded, “I preferred two and a half thousand people standing up in the standing ovation at the end of a show and being b…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
- MITCH LEIGH wrote the music to Man of La Mancha and is the founder of Music Makers, Inc., which creates radio and television commercial music.ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
- RICHARD KILEY: Mitch Leigh was hardly the kind of guy you’d expect to come up with the idea of a musical based on Don Quixote . He was a wealthy businessman, but also a highly trained musicologist. There was this side of him that goaded him to do this thing.ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
- MITCH LEIGH: Man of La Mancha was a gift to myself. It took more than three years to write the music. I did unusual things with meter. “The Impossible Dream” is in 9/8 time. There is 10/8, 5/4 time. Initially it was very difficult to find musicians who could play the music I had composed. Our first lyricist was the great poet W. H. Auden.…ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
- MITCH LEIGH: Joan Diener had a three-and-a-half-octave range. We tailored the music to her voice.ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
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