The run closed June 26, 1971
- Opened
- November 22, 1965
- Closed
- June 26, 1971
- Performances
- 2,328
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- ANTA Washington Square Theatre
Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 3rd 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
| 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. |
| 2002 | Martin Beck Theatre Revival · Jonathan Kent | 304 perf. |
Who was in it82 named
Harry Theyard
Mimi Turque
John Aristides
Ray Dash
Anthony de Vecchi
Marceline Decker
Jonathan Fox
Fernando Grahal
Roger Morden
Shev Rodgers
Gaylea Byrne
Maura K Wedge
Louise Armstrong
Dianne Barton
Leo Bloom
Don Bonnell
Carmine Caridi
Will Carter
Lou Criscuolo
Carlton Davis
John Felton
Jeff Killion
James Leverett
Hector Mercado
Rita Metzger
Bert Michaels
Angelo Nazzo
Marcia O Brien
Robert Rayow
Taylor Reed
Wilson Robey
John Rossi
Violet Santangelo
Peter Shire
Gideon Singer
Bill Stanton
Rudy Tronto
Titos Vandis
Edmond Varrato
Charles West
Bill Britten
Marilyn Child
Robert Cromwell
Robert Einenkel
Joey Faye
John Fields
Marcia Gilford
Howard Girven
Hal Holbrook
Somegoro Ichikawa
Charles Leipart
Joe Lorden
Bruce Mackay
Carlos Macri
Tony Martinez
David Matson
Keith Michell
Norman Riggins
Mark Ross
Ian Sullivan
Toby Tompkins
Samye van
David Wilder
Bob Wright
22 of these 82 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 60 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
- Albert Marre
- Choreographer
- Jack Cole
- Producer
- Albert Selden & Hal James
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 1 from 1 nomination
| Best Musical | Won |
Around this production
- Though it won acclaim off Broadway (the theatre in which it opened, on West 4th Street, is no longer standing) and on Broadway (when it was transferred to the Martin Beck in March 1968), the idea of a windmill-tilting old gaffer as hero of a musical hardly seemed a formula for a successful run. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 239
- Richard Kiley in a return engagement of Man of La Mancha (1977). At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 87
- Man of La Mancha was the first show to do away with the intermission (it was put back in for many tour dates). Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 58
- No one remembers their flops (and wasn't it nice of us to remind you); they just remember their one, gigantic, mega-hit. That's the way it should be, of course, and somewhere in the world, as you read Jack Cole this right now, some seventeen-year-old kid with a dream is walking up that central staircase into the light,… Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 212
- Kiley’s careet took an unexpected turn and he became a character actor of the highest order with his performance as Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha, inspiring lounge singers on seven continents with “The Impossible Dream.” Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 213
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for Man of La Mancha at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.