IMPOSSIBLE DREAM - Broadway -musical version for Elvis Pres

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Description: IMPOSSIBLE DREAM from MAN OF LA MANCHA Broadway_To dream the impossible dream To fight the unbeatable foe To bear with unbearable sorrow To run where the brave dare not go To right the unrightable wrong To love pure and chaste from afar To try when your arms are too weary To reach the unreachable star This is my quest, to follow that star No matter how hopeless, No matter how far To fight for the right Without question or pause To be willing to march into hell For a heavenly cause And I know if I'll only be true To this glorious quest That my heart will lie peaceful and calm When I'm laid to my rest And the world would be better for this That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star _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 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, and 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./musical version for Elvis Presley

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thanks very much!!

wonderful job! It's a beautiful song

thanks very much!!!! Greetings from Spain

Ho so beautiful. I love the style the voice the hat everything. So beautifully original. Make smy heart sing.

Orchestra's arrangements are just as made it Elvis in their day.

A greeting from Spain for you. Thank you for your comments.

I didn't get to finish my last comment; the voice itself is actually pretty good.

Oh, it's Elvis' interpretation. I see. Sorry if I insulted you. I should have read the notes. Also, I was very brusque when I wrote it; I apologize.

Thank you for your comment. keep in mind that: "arrangements Elvis Presley". Thank you

I don't like this video; not exactly because of the singing, but because of the song the singing goes with. This song requires a core of utter goodness, purity, and simplicity that this singing does not have. I'm sure that universalista can sing it with a lot more of the true spirit than he did in this video; it takes a great understanding of Don Quixote's character to sing this well. Now, I'm not saying that I have that understanding; but listen to Richard Kiley and you might see what I mean.

jajajaj! Thanks very much! :)

A worthy effort, well performed this is a very difficult song. I'm not much on the pop styling here. I tend to like it a bit slower and with a bit more punch. Might I suggest a different hat? It makes you look like one of The Village People.

Thank you for their advice... I will attempt it next time greetings!!!

The pronounciation is very good. You should see if they can raise this song a key for you. I am hearing a higher tenor to your voice that would probably be more clear in the higher key (making pronounciation easier too).

Thanks very much. Greetings

Excuse my pronunciation.Thank you. I am of Spanish language.

great voice. What is your is your native language?

Nope. The novel Don Quiote was written in Spanish, but the play Man of La Mancha was written in English. -jcr

is funny how they get on him for not speakin englishw ell yet the original version fo the song is in spanish

uuhm...no.

uuuhm.......no.

It's disappointing to enounter the kind of malice shown by Ron Spivak. Universalista makes the song his own and offers his redtition to the world. No one HAS to listen or watch. His valuable program notes, including the lyrics and a detailed recounting of the origins of the musical, are the best I have seen for ANY entry on YouTube. they deserve to be available on Wikipedia, if they are not already there. And, Ron, relax. No one is forcing you to listen. Let him who is without fault....

I loved it.You shoud not worry -you have a wonderful voice

Thank you very much by its commentary. You are very good person. Its observation is objective. Thanks again. All my respect for you