the Production of “man of La Mancha”, created in the early 1970s. very Nice and powerful addition were the artists involved in the performance — Alexander Lazarev, Yevgeny Leonov, Tatiana Doronina.
1972. Director Andrey Goncharov puts on the stage of the Mayakovsky Theater play at the famous Broadway production based on “don Quixote”. Before him in the USSR, for this material no one was taken. The posters appeared almost for the first time in the history of Soviet theatre — the word “musical”. Passing by the theatre, passers-by with astonishment raised eyebrows.
the action of the play takes place in a prison somewhere in sixteenth-century Europe. Writer Miguel de Cervantes, who along with his servant came here for debt, trying to save from the destruction of the manuscript of “don Quixote”. To distract from his work of the inmates, who are willing to tear up, he offers them a game. He begins to play in front of them scenes from the life odd of a knight errant who is addicted to the ancient stories. Gradually, the criminals are included into action and the story comes alive before their eyes.
the Scenery for the play was made simple: metal design Yes, rough wooden furniture. The ending, however, was impressive from the point of view of the scenography: the stage went down the grating, through which prisoners were stretching their hands to the audience.
the cast —, who a few years before the premiere of “Man of La Mancha” played in the movie “once again about love” and “late Flowers”. Andrei Goncharov and later said that the work in “Man of La Mancha” has become a new vertex in the actor’s biography Lazarev. His character captivated the audience — it was both funny and beautiful, crazy and noble.
For Goncharov’s “man of La Mancha” was a story about how stores normal man caught in an insane, unbearable circumstances. The audience felt it. Hero, locked in a cage, but not broken, was the embodiment, in front of which recently ended the thaw.
the beautiful Aldonzas, rescued by don Quixote, reincarnated Tatyana Doronina, partner Lazarev on the film “once again about love”. In the role of servant of the hero and Sancho Panza — Yevgeny Leonov, associate Professor of “Gentlemen of luck”, lucky hazels of the “Zigzag of luck” and the unforgettable voice of Winnie the Pooh.
the selection of artists potters approached carefully. He was convinced that this production is able to play — those who not only possesses a dramatic talent, but also knows how to sing. The role Aldonza, for example, auditioned more than ten Actresses, but the final choice fell on Doronin with her exceptional talent and strong voice.
Andrei Goncharov came in Mayakovka in when the theater was going through a difficult period. Tickets were sold PLOHo, premieres were seldom seen and the old performances, zasmotreny and memorized, few people interested.
potters, experienced and successful work in the leading theaters of the capital, barely assumed office of the chief Director, has embarked on the updating of the repertoire. First, he put the play on account of the work of the Director within these walls.
Many artists said that working with him was But very interesting. To what does he had always regarded jealously and demanded the same from others. Rehearsals could raise a voice to let serious, but malice never. In addition, Andrey Alexandrovich taught at GITIS and their pedagogical talents, which were used to working with the artists of the troupe. First of all, he encouraged them to think more widely when they are working on the character.
by the Way, he has developed I. he studied Peter Fomenko, Sergey Golomazov, Vladimir Andreev, Nikolay Slichenko, Eugene Kamenkovich, Konstantin Bogomolov, and many others.
a Broadway musical, which began with “man of La Mancha” Theatre named after Mayakovsky, appeared in the mid-1960s. He became so successful that in 1972 he decided to film. The main role in the movie was performed by Peter O’toole and Sophia Loren.
the Author of music to performance composer Mitch Leigh, and lyrics — Joe Derion. They created the song “The Impossible Dream” is still included in a variety of tops. Libretto by American playwright Dale Wasserman. He always said that his work is not an adaptation of “don Quixote”, and a completely different story using the points of the biography of Cervantes and certain passages of his works.
In the life of Miguel de Cervantes really was a prison (and not once). In 1597 he was imprisoned for embezzlement of money. Being an officer in the quartermaster corps, he entrusted the money to the banker, and he got away with it. Responsible for it had to Cervantes.
the second time he came to the conclusion a few years when he was charged with money mismanagement. And the first volume of the novel “the Ingenious Hidalgo don Quixote of La Mancha” was published later, only in 1604. Story about an impoverished middle-aged nobleman Alonso Quijano, who took another name and went to the delight of the world to fight with windmills, initially, it was intended only as a parody of chivalry novels. But, in the end, the book became one of the most popular in the world literature.
