Americans of a certain age may not be tempted by a musical in which the key song is called “The Impossible Dream.” The people who have to be dragged to see Clarence Brown’s production of Man of La Mancha are the ones who will be most surprised by it. They’ll find out, as this reviewer did, seeing it for the first time 45 years after first hearing of it, Man of La Mancha is not a sappy feel-good musical.
The story has some existential heft, and quips worthy of Oscar Wilde—“I don’t have the courage to believe in nothing,” says the main character, as he bemoans “the melancholy burden of sanity.” And it opens with a twist. (George Logan)
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