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We have all heard the song standard, "The Impossible Dream." It's a stirring song from the 1964 musical Man of La Mancha. The book is by Dale Wasserman, lyrics by Joe Darion, and music by Mitch Leigh. It is adapted from Wasserman's non-musical 1959 teleplay I, Don Quixote, which was in turn inspired by Miguel de Cervantes and his seventeenth-century masterpiece 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.
Cervantes presents the play as his defense in a mock trial for the prisoners. In it, he plays Alhonso Quiana, a man who has set his own reality aside and becomes Don Quixote De La Mancha. Assisted by his "squirem" Sancho Panza, Quixote attempts to avoid his mortal enemy, the Enchanter, and woo the serving wench and prostitute, Aldonza, who he takes to be the Lady Dulcinea.
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LocationGator Auditorium / Allegany-Limestone Central School (View)
3131 Five Mile Road
Allegany, NY 14706
United States
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| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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