Bartell Theatre Presents MAN OF LA MANCHA, 4/8-5/1

Beginning April 8, Strollers Theatre will present Man of La Mancha at the Bartell Theatre.  Directed by JS Fauquet, performances run through May 1 on Thursdays at 7:30PM, Fridays at 8PM, and Saturdays at 4PM and 8PM.  Tickets are $15 and can be purchased by calling 608-661-9696, x2.

Man of La Mancha is a musical with a book 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's 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.

The original 1965 Broadway production ran for 2,328 performances and won five Tony Awards, and the musical has been revived four times on Broadway, becoming one of the most enduring works of musical theatre.  The show's signature song, "The Impossible Dream", became a standard.  

^{Since 1958, Strollers Theatre has brought entertaining and thoughtful theater. Critics constantly praise the high quality of acting, the inventive staging and the close-knit audience contact of our intimate productions. Strollers presents traditional fare (You Can't Take it With You, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Crucible) , classics (from Shakespeare to Moliere to Chekhov), musicals such as Cabaret and A Little Night Music, and little-known or seldom performed plays like The Weir, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, and Coyote Ugly. Once a very mobile company, performing in venues all over Madison, Strollers performs exclusively at the Bartell Theatre and plans to stay there for a while.}