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Man of La Mancha Initiation

LightWorker™ Series

Channelling by Dr. Joshua David Stone

Manual by Nan Fahey & Jens Søeborg
Man of Lam Mancha Initiation (LightWorker™ Series)
This initiation is one of the many, cannneled by Dr. Joshua David Stone, shown on the picture to
the right. They are from a numbered list of 303 initiations. I have
sorted them differently, but I have kept the number as well, but
skipped the "The" in front of all names. Dr. Stone is giving them free as
true gifts from our eternal and infinite Spirit, coming directly from the
Absolute Source of Divine Light and Divine Love.

I will do simple manuals to them when I have time, mainly with

material from Wikipedia. And remember they are all free of any charge
and obligation. You are free to copy and pass on. I will send copies to
Dr. Joshua David Stone, and if you translate, then please pass a copy
to both of us: drstone@best.com and enseikoshiro@yahoo.com.

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Reciving the Initiation

Start with Gassho (prayer posture). Meditate on the light and love energies
around you, above you and inside of you. Ask the help of your higher self
and others of your helpers such as the mighty I AM Presence, the angels
and archangels, masters and mahatma guides of meditation, ascension
and initiation. Accept receiving the initiation from your teacher. Sense the
energies! Enjoy! Expand! Relax...
If you receive more than one initiation, then please remember to take deep
breaths in-between initiations.

Passing on the Initiation

To Pass the Initiations to others do the same process as above.
Just intend to pass them and read them out loud waiting for a
few moments in-between initiations sensing the energies
running and the spiritual shifts. Trust in the Higher Wisdom
and Power. Enjoy! Expand! Relax...

Don Quixote (Don Qijote de La Mancha)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Don Quijote de la Mancha, fully titled El ingenioso hidalgo Don
Quijote de la Mancha ('the ingenious nobleman Don Quijote of
La Mancha) is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel
de Cervantes y Saavedra.

Within Cervantes' complex fiction, the original story was said to

have been written in Arabic by a historian named Cide Hamete
Benengeli, with Cervantes serving as a "translator" after the
story is found in Toledo's bedraggled old Jewish quarter.
It regularly appears at or near the top of compendia listing the greatest works of fiction ever
published and is the most important work of literature to emerge from Spain's "siglo de oro" -
golden century. Published in two volumes a decade apart, Don Quixote is widely acclaimed, not
only as the most influential and emblematic work in the canon of Spanish literature, but more
generally a founding work of modern Western literature.

Literary attributes
The book’s importance derives from various factors. The
novel's structure is in episodic form. It is a humorous novel
in the picaresco style of the late sixteenth century. The full
title is indicative of the tale's object, as ingenioso (Span.) is
to be quick with inventiveness, to be confabulatory.
Although the novel is farcical, the second half is serious
and philosophical about the theme of deception. Quixote
has served as an important thematic source not only in
literature but in much of later art and music, such as works
by Pablo Picasso and Richard Strauss. The contrasts
between the tall, thin, fancy-struck, and idealistic Quixote
and the fat, squat, world-weary Panza is a motif echoed
ever since the book’s publication, and Don Quixote's
imaginings are the butt of outrageous and cruel practical
jokes in the novel. Even faithful and simple Sancho is unintentionally forced to deceive him at
certain points. The novel is considered a satire of orthodoxy, truth, veracity, and even
nationalism. In going beyond mere storytelling to exploring the individualism of his characters,
Cervantes helped move beyond the narrow literary conventions of the chivalric romance
literature that he spoofed, which consists of straightforward retelling of a series of acts that
redound to the knightly virtues of the hero.

Farce makes use of punning and similar verbal playfulness.

Character-naming in Don Quixote makes ample figural use of
contradiction, inversion, and irony, such as the names Rocinante (a
reversal) and Dulcinea (an allusion to illusion), and the word
quixote itself, possibly a pun on quijada (jaw) but certainly cuixot
(Catalan: thighs), a reference to a horse's rump.

The world of ordinary people, from sheepherders to tavern-owners

and inn-keepers, that figures in Don Quixote was groundbreaking.
The character Don Quixote became so well-known in its time that
the word quixotic was quickly calqued into many languages.
Characters such as Sancho Panza and Don Quixote’s steed,
Rocinante, are emblems of Western literary culture. The phrase
"tilting at windmills" to describe an act of futility similarly derives
from an iconic scene in the book.

Because of its widespread influence, Don Quixote also helped cement the modern Spanish
language. The opening sentence of the book created a classic cliché of Spanish language in the
phrase de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, "whose name I do not care to recall."
"En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no ha mucho tiempo que
vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor.
"In a village in La Mancha (whose name I do not care to recall) there lived, not very long ago,
one of those gentlemen who keep a lance in the lance-rack, an ancient shield, a skinny old horse,
and a fast greyhound".
Plot summary
Don Quixote tells the story of Alonso Quixano, a minor landowner who has read so many stories
of chivalry that he descends into fantasy and becomes convinced he is a knight errant. Together
with his companion Sancho Panza, the self-styled Don Quixote de la Mancha sets off to save
Dulcinea del Toboso, an imaginary object of his courtly love crafted from a neighbouring
farmgirl by the illusion-struck "knight".

Alonso Quixano, a fiftyish retired country

gentleman, lives in an unnamed section of La
Mancha with his niece and a housekeeper. He has
become obsessed with books of chivalry, and
believes their every word to be true, despite the fact
that many of the events in them are (clearly)
impossible. Quixano eventually loses his mind from
little sleep and food because of so much reading. He
decides to go out as a knight-errant in search of
adventure. He dons an old suit of armor, improvises
a makeshift helmet, renames himself "Don Quixote de la Mancha," and names his skinny horse
"Rocinante." He designates a neighboring farm girl, Aldonza Lorenzo, as his ladylove, renaming
her Dulcinea del Toboso, while she knows nothing about this.

He sets out in the early morning and ends up

at a roadside house, which he believes to be a
castle. He asks the innkeeper, whom he takes
to be the lord of the castle, to dub him knight.
Don Quixote spends the night holding vigil
over his armour, during which he becomes
involved in a fight with muleteers who try to
remove his armour from the horse trough so
that they can water their mules. The
innkeeper then "dubs" him knight advising
him that he needs a squire, and sends him on
his way. Don Quixote battles with traders
from Toledo, who "insult" the imaginary
Dulcinea, and he also frees a young boy who is tied to a tree by his Master because the boy had
the audacity to ask his master for the wages the boy had earned but had not yet been paid. Don
Quixote is returned to his home by a neighboring peasant, Pedro Crespo.

Back at home, Don Quixote plots an escape.

Meanwhile, his niece, the housekeeper, the
parish curate, and the local barber secretly
burn most of the books of chivalry, and seal up
his library pretending that a magician has
carried it off. Don Quixote approaches another
neighbor, Sancho Panza, and asks him to be
his squire, promising him governorship of an
island. The rather dull-witted Sancho agrees,
and the pair sneak off in the early dawn. It is
here that their series of famous adventures
begin, starting with Don Quixote's attack on
windmills that he believes to be ferocious
giants.
Although the first half of the novel is almost completely farcical, the second half is serious and
philosophical about the theme of deception. Don Quixote's imaginings are made the butt of
outrageous and cruel practical jokes. Even Sancho is unintentionally forced to deceive him at
one point; trapped into finding Dulcinea, Sancho brings
back three peasant girls and tells Quixote that they are
Dulcinea and her ladies-in-waiting. When Don Quixote
does see only three peasant girls, Sancho pretends that
Quixote suffers a cruel enchantment which does not
permit him to see the truth. Sancho eventually does get
his imaginary island governorship and unexpectedly
proves to be wise and practical; though this too, ends in
disaster. The novel ends with Don Quixote's complete
disillusionment, with his melancholy return to sanity
and renunciation of chivalry, and finally, his death.

Writing and publication

Sources for Don Quixote include the Valencian novel Tirant lo Blanch, one of the first chivalric
epics, which Cervantes describes in Chapter VI of Quixote as "the best book in the world." The
scene of the book burning gives us an excellent list of Cervantes's likes and dislikes about
literature.

In July or August 1604 Cervantes sold the rights of El

ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha (known as Don
Quixote, Part I) to the publisher-bookseller Francisco de
Robles for an unknown sum. License to publish was granted
in September, the printing was finished in December, and
the book came out in January 1605. The novel was an
immediate success.

There is some evidence of its content's being known before

publication to, among others, Lope de Vega. There is also a
tradition that Cervantes read some portions of his work to a
select audience at the court of the Duke of Bejar, which may
have helped in making the book known. Don Quixote, Part
One lay on Cervantes' hands for some time before he could
find a willing publisher.[10] The compositors at Juan de la
Cuesta's press in Madrid are now known to have been
responsible for errors in the text, many of which were
attributed to the author.

No sooner was it in the hands of the public than preparations were made to issue derivative
("pirated") editions. "Don Quixote" had been growing in favour, and its author's name was now
known beyond the Pyrenees. By August 1605 there were two Madrid editions, two published in
Lisbon, and one in Valencia. A second edition with additional copyrights for Aragón and
Portugal, which publisher Francisco de Robles secured. Sale of these publishing rights deprived
Cervantes of further financial profit on Part One. In 1607, an edition was printed in Brussels.
Robles, the Madrid publisher, found it necessary to meet demand with a third edition, a seventh
publication in all, in 1608. Popularity of the book in Italy was such that a Milan bookseller
issued an Italian edition in 1610. Yet another Brussels edition was called for in 1611.

In 1613, Cervantes published Novelas Exemplares, dedicated to the Maecenas of the day, the
Conde de Lemos. Eight and a half years after Part One had appeared, we get the first hint of a
forthcoming Segunda Parte (Part Two). "You shall see shortly," Cervantes says, "the further
exploits of Don Quixote and humours of Sancho Panza." Don Quixote, Part Two, published by
the same press as its predecessor, appeared late in 1615, and quickly reprinted in Brussels and
Valencia (1616) and Lisbon (1617). The second tome capitalizes on the potential of the first,
developing and diversifying without sacrificing familiarity. Many people agree that it is richer
and more profound. Parts One and Two were published as one edition in Barcelona in 1617.

The spurious Avellaneda Segunda Parte

It is not certain when Cervantes began writing Part Two of Don Quixote, but he had probably
not gotten much further than Chapter LIX by late July of 1614. About September, however, a
spurious Part Two, entitled "Second Volume of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La
Mancha: by the Licenciado (doctorate) Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda, of Tordesillas", was
published in Tarragona by an unidentified Aragonese who was an admirer of Lope de Vega, rival
of Cervantes. Avellaneda's identity has been the subject of many theories, but there is no
consensus on who he was. In its prologue, the author gratuitously insulted Cervantes, who not
surprisingly took offense and responded; the last half of Chapter LIX and most of the following
chapters of Cervantes' Segunda Parte lend some insight of the effects upon him. Many scholars
agree that this book is of considerable literary merit.

Cultural legacy
Don Quixote is often nominated as the world's greatest
work of fiction. Don Quixote's importance in literature
has produced a large and varied cultural and artistic
legacy. Many artists have drawn inspiration either
directly or indirectly from Cervantes' work, including the
painter Honoré Daumier, the composer Richard Strauss,
the writer Henry Fielding and the filmmaker Terry
Gilliam.

The cultural legacy of Don Quixote is one of the richest

and most varied of any work of fiction ever produced.It
stands in a unique position between medieval chivalric
romance and the modern novel. The former consist of
disconnected stories with little exploration of the inner
life of even the main character. The latter are usually focused on the psychological evolution of
their characters. In Part I, Quixote impose himself on his environment. By Part II, people know
about him through "having read his adventures," and so, he needs to do less to maintain his
image. By his deathbed, he has regained his sanity, and is once more "Alonso Quixano the
Good".

The novel contains many minor literary "firsts" for

European literature—a woman complaining of her
menopause, someone with an eating disorder, and the
psychological revealing of their troubles as something
inner to themselves.

Subtle touches regarding perspective are everywhere:

characters talk about a woman who is the cause of the
death of a suitor, portraying her as evil, but when she
comes on stage, she gives a different perspective
entirely that makes Quixote (and thus the reader)
defend her. When Quixote descends into a cave,
Cervantes admits that he does not know what went on
there.
Quixote's adventures tend to involve situations in which he attempts to apply a knight's sure,
simple morality to situations in which much more complex issues are at hand. For example,
upon seeing a band of galley slaves being mistreated by their guards, he believes their cries of
innocence and attacks the guards. After they are freed, he demands that they honour his lady
Dulcinea, but instead they pelt him with stones and leave.

Different ages have tended to read different things into the novel. When it was first published, it
was usually interpreted as a comic novel. After the French Revolution it was popular in part due
to its central ethic that individuals can be right while society is quite wrong and disenchanting—
not comic at all. In the 19th century it was seen as a social commentary, but no one could easily
tell "whose side Cervantes was on." By the 20th century it had come to occupy a canonical space
as one of the foundations of modern literature.

Man of La Mancha - the Broadway Musical

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Man of La Mancha is a 1965 Broadway musical in one act which tells

the story of the classic novel Don Quixote as a play within a play,
performed by Miguel de Cervantes and his fellow prisoners as he
awaits a hearing with the Spanish Inquisition. It is performed on a
single set, arranged to suggest, vaguely, a dungeon. All changes in
location are suggested by alterations in the lighting and by the creative
use of props supposedly lying around the floor of the dungeon; there
are no detailed stage sets. This was done to encourage the
participation of the audience's imagination in the enjoyment of the
show. (More recent productions, however, have added more scenery.)

History of the Play

The book was by Dale Wasserman, lyrics by Joe Darion, and music by Mitch Leigh: one song,
"The Impossible Dream," was particularly popular.

Man of La Mancha started its life as a non-musical teleplay written by Dale Wasserman for
CBS's Dupont Show of the Month program. This original staging starred Lee J. Cobb. The
Dupont Corporation disliked the title Man of La Mancha, thinking that its viewing audience
would not know what La Mancha actually meant, so a new title, I, Don Quixote, was chosen.
Upon its telecast, the play won much critical acclaim.

Years after this television broadcast, and after the

original teleplay had been unsuccessfully optioned as a
non-musical Broadway play, director Albert Marre
called Wasserman and suggested that he turn his play
into a musical. Mitch Leigh was selected as composer.
The original lyricist of the musical was world-renowned
poet W. H. Auden, but his lyrics were discarded, some
of them overtly satiric and biting, attacking the
bourgeois audience at times.

The musical first opened at the Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut in 1964. Rex Harrison
was to be the original star of this production, but soon lost interest when he discovered the
songs must actually be sung. Michael Redgrave was also considered for the role.

The play finally opened on Broadway on November 22, 1965. Richard Kiley won a Tony Award
for his performance as Cervantes/Quixote in the original production, and it made Kiley a bona
fide Broadway star, but the role went to Peter O'Toole in the less-successful 1972 film. O'Toole,
however, did not really sing his own songs; they were dubbed by tenor Simon Gilbert. All other
actors in the film, however, from non-singers such as Sophia Loren, Brian Blessed, Harry
Andrews, and Rosalie Crutchley, to Broadway musical stars such as Julie Gregg and Gino
Conforti, did do their own singing.

The only member of the original cast to reprise his role in

the film was Conforti, repeating his hilarious portrayal of
the amazed barber, whose shaving basin is mistaken by
Don Quixote for the Golden Helmet of Mambrino.
Although the bulk of the film was made on two enormous
sound stages, the use of locations was much more explicit
- Don Quixote is actually shown fighting the windmill,
while onstage this had been merely suggested by having
Quixote run offstage to agitated music, and then crawl
back onstage a few seconds later, with his lance broken
and his sword twisted. The film was produced and
directed by Arthur Hiller, photographed by Federico
Fellini's frequent cinematographer, Giuseppe Rotunno
with musical and fight staging provided by Gillian Lynne.

The play has been run on Broadway five times:

• 1965 - 1971 original production, opened November 22, 1965 with Richard Kiley as Miguel
de Cervantes and Don Quixote and ran for 2,328 performances. John Cullum, José
Ferrer, Hal Holbrook, and Lloyd Bridges also played the roles during this run.
• 1972 - revival, Richard Kiley as Cervantes and Quixote.
• 1977 - revival, Richard Kiley as Cervantes and Quixote, Tony Martinez as Sancho Panza
and Emily Yancy as Dulcinea.
• 1992 - revival, Raúl Juliá as Cervantes and Quixote, Sheena Easton as Dulcinea.
• 2002 - revival, Brian Stokes Mitchell as Cervantes and Quixote, Mary Elizabeth
Mastrantonio as Dulcinea, Ernie Sabella as Sancho Panza.

Plot, with songs indicated

It is the late sixteenth century. Failed author-soldier-actor and tax collector Miguel de Cervantes
has been thrown into a dungeon by the Spanish Inquisition, along with his manservant. They
have been charged with foreclosing on a monastery. The two have brought all their possessions
with them into the dungeon. There, they are attacked by their fellow prisoners, who instantly set
up a mock trial. If Cervantes is found guilty, he will have to hand over all his possessions.
Cervantes agrees to do so, except for a precious manuscript which the prisoners are all too eager
to burn. He asks to be allowed to offer a defence, and the defence will be a play, acted out by him
and all the prisoners. A big, burly, but good-humoured criminal called "The Governor" agrees.

Cervantes takes out a makeup kit from his trunk, and the
manservant helps him get into a costume. In a few short
moments, Cervantes has transformed himself into Alonso
Quijana, an old gentleman who has read so many books of
chivalry and thought so much about injustice that he has lost
his mind and now believes that he should go forth as a
knight-errant. Quijana renames himself Don Quixote de La
Mancha, and sets out to find adventures with his "squire",
Sancho Panza. They both sing the title song "Man of La
Mancha (I, Don Quixote)".

The first adventure he has is with a windmill. Don Quixote mistakes it for a four-armed giant,
attacks it, and receives a beating from the encounter. He thinks he knows why he has been
defeated - it is because he has not been properly dubbed a knight. Looking off, he imagines he
sees a castle (it is really a rundown roadside inn). He orders Sancho to announce their arrival by
blowing his bugle, and the two proceed to the inn.

In the inn's courtyard, the local wench Aldonza is being propositioned by a group of horny
muleteers. Fending them off sarcastically, ("It's All The Same") she eventually chooses Pedro,
who pays in advance.

Don Quixote enters with Sancho, upset at not having been

"announced" by a "dwarf". The Innkeeper (played by The
Governor) treats them sympathetically and humors Don
Quixote, but when Quixote catches sight of Aldonza, he
believes her to be the lady Dulcinea, to whom he swears
eternal loyalty. He sings "Dulcinea". Aldonza, used to being
roughly handled, is furious at Quixote's strange and kind
treatment of her.

Meanwhile, Antonia (Don Quixote's niece) has gone with

Quixote's housekeeper to seek advice from the local priest.
But the priest wisely realizes that the two women are more
concerned with the embarrassment the knight's madness
may bring than with his welfare. The three sing "I'm Only
Thinking of Him".

One of the prisoners, a cynic called "The Duke", is chosen by Cervantes to play Dr. Sanson
Carrasco, Antonia's fianceé, a man just as cynical and self-centered as the prisoner who is
playing him. Carrasco is upset at the idea of welcoming a madman into the family, so he and the
priest set out to cure Don Quixote and bring him back home.

Back at the inn, Sancho delivers a missive from Don Quixote

to Aldonza courting her favor and asking for a token. Aldonza
gives Sancho an old dishrag, but to Don Quixote the dishrag
is a silken scarf. When Aldonza asks Sancho why he follows
Quixote, he sings "I Really Like Him". Alone, later, Aldonza
sings "What Does He Want of Me?" In the courtyard, the
muleteers once again taunt her with the suggestive song
"Little Bird, Little Bird".

The priest and Dr. Carrasco arrive, but cannot reason with Don Quixote, who suddenly spots a
barber wearing his shaving basin on his head to ward off the sun's heat.("The Barber's Song")
Quixote immediately snatches the basin from the barber at sword's point, believing it to be the
miraculous "Golden Helmet of Mambrino", which will make him invulnerable. Dr. Carrasco and
the priest leave, with the priest impressed by Don Quixote's view of life and wondering if curing
him is really worth it. ("To Each His Dulcinea")

Meanwhile, Quixote asks the Innkeeper to dub him knight. The innkeeper agrees, but first
Quixote must stand vigil all night over his armor. Quixote decides to do so in the courtyard,
because the "chapel" is "being repaired". As he stands guard, Aldonza, on her way to her
rendezvous with Pedro, finally confronts him, but Quixote gently explains why he behaves the
way he does (at this point, he sings "The Impossible Dream"). Pedro enters, furious, and slaps
Aldonza. Enraged, Don Quixote takes him and all the other muleteers on in a huge fight. With
the help of Aldonza (who now sympathizes with Quixote) and Sancho, the muleteers are all
knocked unconscious, as the orchestra plays "The Combat". But the noise has awakened the
Innkeeper, who enters and kindly tells Quixote that he must leave. However, before he does, the
Innkeeper dubs him knight ("Knight of the Woeful Countenance").
Quixote then announces he must try to help the muleteers. Aldonza, whom Quixote still calls
Dulcinea, is shocked, but after the knight explains that the laws of chivalry demand that he do
so, Aldonza agrees to help them. For her efforts, she is beaten, raped, and carried off by the
muleteers, who leave the inn. ("The Abduction") Quixote, in his small room, is blissfully
unaware of what has just happened to her ("The Impossible Dream" - first reprise)

At this point, the Don Quixote play is brutally interrupted

when the Inquisition enters the dungeon and drags off an
unwilling prisoner to be tried. The Duke taunts Cervantes
for his look of fear, and accuses him of not facing reality.
This prompts a passionate defence of idealism by
Cervantes.

The Don Quixote play resumes ("Man of La Mancha" -

first reprise). He and Sancho have left the inn and
encounter a band of Gypsies ("Moorish Dance") who take
advantage of Quixote's naivete and proceed to steal everything they own, including Quixote's
horse Rocinante and Sancho's donkey Dapple. The two are forced to return to the inn, where the
Innkeeper tries to keep them out, but finally cannot resist letting them back in out of pity.
Aldonza shows up with several bruises. Quixote swears to avenge her, but she angrily tells him
off, begging him to leave her alone ("Aldonza"). Suddenly, another knight enters. He announces
himself as the "Knight of the Mirrors", insults Aldonza, and is promptly challenged to combat by
Don Quixote. The Knight of the Mirrors and his attendants bear huge shields with mirrors on
them, and as they swing them at Quixote, the glare from the sunlight blinds him. The Knight of
the Mirrors taunts him, forcing him to see himself as the world sees him - a fool and a madman.
Don Quixote collapses in a faint. The Knight of the Mirrors removes his helmet - he is really Dr.
Carrasco, returned with his latest plan to cure Quixote.

Cervantes announces that the story is finished, but the prisoners are dissatisfied with the
ending. They prepare to burn his manuscript, when he asks for the chance to present one last
scene.

The Governor agrees, and we are now in Don Quixote's

bedroom, where he has fallen into a coma. Antonia,
Sancho, the Housekeeper, the priest, and Carrasco are all
there. Sancho tries to cheer up Quixote ("A Little Gossip").
Don Quixote eventually awakens, and when questioned,
reveals that he is now sane, remembering his life as
Quixote as a vague dream. He realizes that he is now dying,
and asks the priest to help him make out his will. As
Quixote begins to dictate, Aldonza forces her way in. She
has come to visit Quixote because she has found that she
can no longer bear to be anyone but Dulcinea. When he
does not recognize her, she sings "Dulcinea" (reprise) to him and tries to help him remember the
words of "The Impossible Dream". Suddenly, he remembers everything and rises from his bed,
calling for his armor and sword so that he may set out again. ("Man of La Mancha" -second
reprise) But it is too late. He collapses and dies. The priest sings "The Psalm" for the dead.
However, Aldonza now believes in him so fiercely that, to her, Don Quixote will always live.
When Sancho calls her by name, she asks him to call her Dulcinea.

The Inquisition enters to take Cervantes to his trial, and the prisoners, finding him not guilty,
return his manuscript. It is, of course, the unfinished manuscript of Don Quixote. As Cervantes
and his servant mount the drawbridge-like staircase to go to their impending trial, the prisoners
(except for the Duke) sing "The Impossible Dream" in chorus.
Spoilers end here.
Trivia
• A French adaptation, which featured the Belgian singer-songwriter Jacques Brel in the
lead role, was recorded and issued in 1968 as the album L'Homme de la Mancha.
• Another French version was produced in Liège in 1998 and 1999 with José van Dam in
the lead role.
• Tenor Plácido Domingo has also played Quixote on a stage set and made a recording
together with Julia Migenes as Dulcinea and Mandy Patinkin as Sancho.
• Singer Jack Jones has played Quixote in 2000. Jones was responsible for numerous
chart-topping singles including "The Impossible Dream (The Quest)".
• Mitch Leigh did not play any instrument while writing the score to Man of La Mancha.
He submitted songs for the production on cassette tapes, already fully orchestrated and
performed by professional musicians (it is a custom on Broadway for professional
orchestrators other than the composer to arrange instrumental parts for musicals. Mitch
Leigh's work, which won him the Tony Award for Best Original Score, was therefore
notable because the company that Leigh founded, Music Makers, Inc., orchestrated the
work under his very direct supervision). Leigh scored the piece for a flute (which
alternates on piccolo), an oboe, a clarinet, a bassoon (which alternates as the second
clarinet), 2 B-flat trumpets, 2 horns, two trombones (one tenor and one bass), one
timpanist (playing either two or three timpani), two percussionists playing 14
instruments, 2 Spanish guitars and one string bass. In addition, in two scenes on-stage
guitars accompany singers. Leigh's ensemble, in contrast to the traditional Broadway
orchestra, had only one bowed string instrument and was virtually a wind and brass band
with guitars. The film version of the show, orchestrated and conducted by Laurence
Rosenthal, did add strings to the orchestration, although very discreetly.
• The musical is also featured in the sci-fi TV series Quantum Leap. The episode "Catch A
Falling Star", has Dr Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula, who himself has considerable experience
in Broadway musicals) leaping into the body of an understudy who falls in love with the
girl playing Dulcinea, saves the life of the drunk Luvvie to whom he is an understudy and,
of course, eventually plays the lead role.
• Several productions, including the so-called "complete play" recording made in 1968, as
well as the 1972 film, omit the scene with the Moorish Gypsies.
• While the musical is technically one act, there is usually an intermission between "To
Each His Dulcinea" and "The Impossible Dream" in modern productions.

Music and Songs in the Musical

"Overture"; "Man of La Mancha (I, Don Quixote)";
"It's All the Same"; "Dulcinea"; "I'm Only Thinking of
Him"; "I Really Like Him"; "What Does He Want of
Me?" (changed to "What Do You Want of Me?" on the
original cast album); "Little Bird, Little Bird"; "The
Barber's Song"; "Golden Helmet of Mambrino"
"To Each His Dulcinea (To Every Man His Dream)";
"The Impossible Dream (The Quest)"; "The Combat"
(instrumental); "The Dubbing (Knight of the Woeful
Countenance)"; "The Abduction" (mostly
instrumental); "The Impossible Dream" (first reprise);
"Man of La Mancha" (first reprise); "Moorish Dance"
(instrumental); "Aldonza"; "The Knight of the Mirrors"
(instrumental); "A Little Gossip"; "Dulcinea" (reprise);
"The Impossible Dream" (second reprise); "Man of La
Mancha" (second reprise); "The Psalm"; "Finale" (The
Impossible Dream); "Bows"; "Exit Music".