NY STATE: FORT SALEM OPENS SEASON WITH MAN OF LA MANCHA
Once a noble experiment, now an annual tradition, Tim Nelson and his Rose Center Theater Repertory Players fly themselves and their costumes from Westminster, California, to Salem, New York, and present a "big" classic musical at TheMAINSTAGE AT FORT SALEM THEATER (11 East Broadway, Salem, NY - 518-854-9200). This year, for one weekend only, Friday through Sunday, June 21st through 23rd, the show is Man of La Mancha, the Don Quixote legend set to beautiful music, which includes the show's hit song, "The Impossible Dream." Man of La Mancha, based on Miguel de Cervantes's seventeenth century masterpiece, Don Quixote, originated as a ninety-minute TV play without music in 1959, written by Dale Wasserman for DuPont's Show of the Month. Wasserman took his script, with much of the dialogue in place, and, with lyricist Joe Darion and music by Mitch Leigh, workshopped the musical at Connecticut's Goodspeed Opera House and opened at the ANTA Washington Square Theater in 1965, winning five Tony Awards and running for 2,328 performances. Westminster's Fort Salem production stars actors familiar to local audiences: Chris Caputo (the Sheriff of Nottingham from last year's Robin Hood) and Melissa Cook (Julie from Carousel). Director Tim Nelson was hired ten years ago by Kathy Beaver, former owner and artistic director at Fort Salem, to direct her production of Man of La Mancha, and was so taken with the area that he purchased a vacation home on Salem's Vermont border. Artistic Director of The Rose Center, a community-owned theater in Orange County, California, Nelson is also chair of the Musical Theater Department at the Huntington Beach Academy for the Performing Arts, which as a school wins national awards for excellence, and whose students (under Nelson's tutelage) have consistently won the highest national performance awards every year in New York City. Tickets are $30.
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