Productions5 on Broadway
| 1965 | ANTA Washington Square Theatre Original. November 22, 1965 · Albert Marre | 2,328 performances · 1 Tony wins |
| 1972 | Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival. June 22, 1972 · Albert Marre | 140 performances |
| 1977 | Palace Theatre Revival. September 15, 1977 · Albert Marre | 124 performances |
| 1992 | Marquis Theatre Revival. April 24, 1992 · Albert Marre | 108 performances |
| 2002 | Martin Beck Theatre Revival. December 5, 2002 · Jonathan Kent | 304 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
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In the literature55 passages
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. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p239
Richard Kiley in a return engagement of Man of La Mancha (1977). book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p87
Man of La Mancha was the first show to do away with the intermission (it was put back in for many tour dates). book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p58
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,… book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p212
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.” book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p213
In the ‘90s the Dodgers produced a series of revivals that included Guys and Dolls, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Once Upon a Mattress (1997), starring a vocally undercast Sarah Jessica Parker, and How to Succeed starring her husband, Matthew Broderick. Other revivals of note were Oklahoma! and Peter… book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p263
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