The Strand’s Broadway on Main Staging ‘Man of La Mancha’ (Sun., 9/13/26)

Some folks are shocked to learn that Man of La Mancha is not a faithful, literal adaptation of the great novel Don Quixote.  But that’s no reason to skip the award-winning musical. It’d be like skipping the Super Bowl because American football is not a literal adaptation of soccer.  Man of La Mancha—which won five Tony Awards (including Best Musical) for its 1965 Broadway debut, and is now being presented by The Strand Theater—puts a new twist on the wild 17th-century tale. The musical imagines that the novel’s author, Miguel de Cervantes, is imprisoned by the Spanish Inquisition. There in a holding cell, Cervantes gets other prisoners to join him in acting out parts of his bizarre story about a guy who believes he’s a medieval knight. Plus, everybody sings.  “The Impossible Dream” is the best-known song and there are plenty more. 2 p.m. The Strand Theater, 119 North Main St., Zelienople. (MV)

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