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Joan Diener (February 24, 1930 – May 13, 2006) was an American theatre actress and singer with a three-and-a-half-octave range. As her obituary in The New York Times summed it up, Diener's "lush beauty, showstopping stage presence and operatic voice made her a favorite in musicals, especially in the original 1965 Man of La Mancha ."
Man of La Mancha is a 1965 musical with a book by Dale Wasserman, music by Mitch Leigh, ... Joan Diener reprised her role as Aldonza (this time singing in French).
Man of La Mancha is a 1972 film adaptation of the Broadway musical Man of La Mancha by Dale Wasserman, with music by Mitch Leigh and lyrics by Joe Darion.The musical was suggested by the classic novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, but more directly based on Wasserman's 1959 non-musical television play I, Don Quixote, which combines a semi-fictional episode from the life of Cervantes with ...
Don Quixote (Max Levine) is being show who he really is by the Knight of the Mirrors and his attendants (L to R) Aarom Shanor, Scott Thompson, Ben Simon and Mikey Schrum in Center Theatre Players ...
The cast of Kismet included Alfred Drake, Doretta Morrow, Richard Kiley and Joan Diener. [5] Diener and Marre married in 1956, the same year he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Director for The Chalk Garden. [6] In 1956 he directed a Broadway revival of Shaw's Saint Joan starring Irish actress Siobhán McKenna. [7] [8]
L'Homme de la Mancha (English: The man of la Mancha) is Jacques Brel's twelfth studio album. Released in 1968, it is the cast recording of the French adaptation of The Man of la Mancha by Mitch Leigh and Joe Darion. Brel adapted the book, translated the lyrics, directed the production, and played the role of Don Quixote. This was the only time ...
Kiley created the role of Don Quixote in the original 1965 production of the Broadway musical Man of La Mancha and was the first to sing and record "The Impossible Dream", the hit song from the show. In the 1953 hit musical Kismet , he played the Caliph in the original Broadway cast and, as such, was one of the quartet who sang " And This Is My ...
“Man of La Mancha” will open at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 6 and will run through Oct. 23. Tickets ($41-$65) and more information at musictheaterheritage.com.