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Biography

“I was born. That seems fairly certain, but where or when less so, since I could not boast a birth certificate. By profession I’d describe myself as a Showbiz Hobo, having made the jump from riding the rails to theatre pro at the age of 19. I’ve been a stage manager, lighting designer, producer and director. At the age of 33, in the midst of directing an unspeakable Broadway musical, I walked, feeling that I couldn’t possibly write worse than the stuff I was directing. Writing was difficult due to an almost total lack of education. In my years of jumping freights, though, I did a heap of reading, ‘borrowing’ two books at a time from small town libraries, returning them to another library in a town further down the line, and hooking two more. (It’s possible that single-handed I brought the Dewey Decimal System to its knees.) Disambiguation: for business entertainment, see Show business. ... Musical theater (or theatre) is a form of theater combining music, songs, dance, and spoken dialogue. ... Freighthopping is the act of surreptitiously hitching a ride on a railroad freight car. ... The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC, also called the Dewey Decimal System) is a system of library classification developed by Melvil Dewey (1851–1931) in 1876, and since greatly modified and expanded in the course of the twenty-two major revisions which have occurred up until 2004. ...

"I succeeded as a writer by lucking into the Golden Age of Television and thereafter segued into stage plays and movies. I have written around fifty works for TV, some two dozen stage plays and musicals and fifteen feature films. For a time I occupied an executive suite at MGM as a producer-writer. Upon being sprung, I wrote the stage adaptation of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest which flies lustily to this very day…" [1] The Golden Age of Television is a reference to the period from approximately 1949 to 1960 when prime time television drama was predominated by original and classic productions from such writers as Paddy Chayefsky, Reginald Rose and Rod Serling. ... In music, segue is a direction to the performer. ... For alternate meanings of MGM, see MGM (disambiguation). ...

A product of the road and a raffish background, he claims neither academic discipline nor training.

Dale Wasserman was born in Rhinelander, Wisconsin and has worked in various aspects of theatre since the age of nineteen. His formal education ended after one year of high school in Los Angeles. It was there that he started as a self-taught lighting designer, director and producer, starting with musical impresario Sol Hurok as stage managerr and lighting design and for the Katherine Dunham Company, where he invented lighting patterns imitated later in other dance companies. In addition to U.S. cities, he has produced and directed abroad in places such as London and Paris. It was in the middle of directing a Broadway musical—which, out of persistent revulsion, Mr. Wasserman refuses to name—that he abruptly walked out, feeling he "couldn't possibly write worse than the stuff [he] was directing" and left his previous occupations to become a writer. "Every other function was interpretive; only the writer was primary." It this he has succeded enormously. Rhinelander is a city located in Oneida County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 7,735. ... This article is about the largest city in California. ... Autodidacticism (also autodidactism) is self-education or self-directed learning. ... Lighting at the 2005 Classical Spectacular Concert The role of the theatre lighting designer (or LD) within theatre is to work with the theatre director, set designer, and costume designer to create an overall look for the show in response to the text, but bearing in mind issues of visibility... A theatre director is a principal in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a play by unifying various endeavors and aspects of production. ... A theatrical producer is a type of producer who oversees the staging of theatre productions. ... Sol Hurok was an music agent and impresario. ... A theatre director is a principal in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a play by unifying various endeavors and aspects of production. ... Lighting at the 2005 Classical Spectacular Concert The role of the theatre lighting designer (or LD) within theatre is to work with the theatre director, set designer, and costume designer to create an overall look for the show in response to the text, but bearing in mind issues of visibility... The Katherine Dunham Company, a troupe of dancers, singers, actors and musicians, was the first African American modern dance company. ... For other uses, see London (disambiguation). ... The Eiffel Tower, the international symbol of the city, as viewed from the Trocadéro This article is about the capital and largest city in France. ... Musical theatre (sometimes, but not often, spelled theater) is a form of theatre combining music, songs, dance, and spoken dialogue. ...

His first play, Elisha and the Long Knives, received an award as "TV Play of the Year". He wrote some thirty more television dramas, making him one of the better known writers in the Golden Age of Television. Two of his stage plays predominate: Man of La Mancha and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, whose stagings place him among the most produced American playwrights worldwide. Man of La Mancha ran for five years on Broadway and continues worldwide in more than thirty languages. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ran for six years in San Francisco and has had extensive engagements in Chicago, New York, Boston and other U.S. cities. Foreign productions have appeared in Paris, Mexico, Sweden, Argentina, Belgium, and Japan. The Golden Age of Television is a reference to the period from approximately 1949 to 1960 when prime time television drama was predominated by original and classic productions from such writers as Paddy Chayefsky, Reginald Rose and Rod Serling. ... 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. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ... Official language(s) None, English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  Ranked 27th  - Total 54,520 sq mi (141,205 km²)  - Width 285 miles (455 km)  - Length 330 miles (530 km)  - % water 13. ... Boston is a town and small port c. ... The Eiffel Tower, the international symbol of the city, as viewed from the Trocadéro This article is about the capital and largest city in France. ...

Some insight into Wasserman's inner workings may be found in his work Man of La Mancha. "I wrote Man of La Mancha because I believed in it. It is my most personal play," he said in an interview. [2] He felt drawn to the author of the original novel Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes, who led a life that Wasserman calls a "catalogue of catastrophe", but was able to produce one of the world's most memorable stories. Perhaps he holds with the words of his Don Quixote: "I hope to add some measure of grace to the world. . . . Whether I win or lose does not matter, only that I follow the quest". This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Don Quixote de la Mancha (now usually spelled Don Quijote by Spanish-speakers; Don Quixote is an archaic spelling) (IPA: ) or El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha) is a novel by the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Reclusive by nature, he and his wife, Martha Nelly Garza, make their home in Arizona ("because it's the one State which refuses to adopt Daylight Saving Time."). Official language(s) None Capital Phoenix Largest city Phoenix Area  Ranked 6th  - Total 113,998 sq. ... Map of the world color-coded with areas in blue observing daylight saving time. ...

Works

His protagonists are a bit like Wasserman himself: raffish rebels, fiercely independent fools—poets, madmen and misfits—societal outcasts who defy authority and “tilt at windmills”, reluctant heroes (sometimes anti-heroes), who are called upon to make some extraordinary sacrifice in order to protect or preserve their personal freedom or that of others.

Plays

• 1963 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was based on a 1962 novel by Ken Kesey. In 1975 it was translated to the screen. The writer and star have contrasting remembrances of the original production.

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Recent (2000-

• 2001 How I Saved the Whole Damn World — A sailor on a drunken spree welds items from a junkyard into the mast of his ship. A plane flying overhead explodes and presto! an all-powerful weapon is born, and willy-nilly there is peace on earth. This comedy is about people so dazed with the new technologies they no longer know what to believe and, as a consequence, will believe anything at all.
• An Enchanted Land, about Haiti, premiered in London.
• A Walk In The Sky — Story Spinners, Mountain Men, Indians and lost boys.
• Beggar's Holiday — A wicked and very funny commentary on the morals, manners and materialism of our America today. Music by Duke Ellington.
• Players In The Game — The Bishop of fourteenth century Prague is humane, witty and happily immoral, which suits his city just fine. However, it displeases the Pope.
• The Stallion Howl — An attractive woman receives a surprise inheritance from a mysterious millionaire and refuses to reveal to her husband, an inquisitive newspaper editor, the reason for the gift.
• Boy On Blacktop Road — An investigation takes place related to the arrival and subsequent disappearance of a young boy.

The latter two plays comprise the World Premiere of Open Secrets which opened In June of 2006 at the Rubicon Theatre Company in Ventura, California. This article is about the year 2000. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Official website: http://www. ...

Musical theatre

• 1966 Man of La Mancha (music by Mitch Leigh & lyrics by Joe Darion) was a multiple Tony Award for Best Musical winner and among the longest-running Broadway musicals of all time.

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Screenwriter Credits

• 1958 The Vikings (with Calder Willingham), starring Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Ernest Borgnine, Alexander Knox.
• 1963 Cleopatra (with several others)
• 1964 Quick Before It Melts from a novel by Philip Benjamin, directed by Delbert Mann, starring George Maharis and Robert Morse.
• 1966 Mister Buddwing (aka Woman Without a Face) from a novel by Evan Hunter, directed by Delbert Mann, starring James Garner and Angela Lansbury.— A man awakens in Central Park and is slowly shocked into the discovery that he is without name, status, or other civilized connections. A passing Budweiser beer truck and a passing plane supply him with a name—Buddwing.
• 1969 A Walk With Love And Death (with Hans Koningsberger), directed by John Huston and starring Anjelica Huston as Claudia.
• 1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, directed by Miloš Forman, starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher.

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Television Program Writing Credits

More than fifty, mostly in the Golden Age of Television. The Golden Age of Television is a reference to the period from approximately 1949 to 1960 when prime time television drama was predominated by original and classic productions from such writers as Paddy Chayefsky, Reginald Rose and Rod Serling. ...

• 1947 Kraft Television Theatre aka Kraft Mystery Theatre aka Kraft Theatre
• 1948 Studio One aka Westinghouse Studio One
• 1953 Kraft Television Theatre aka Ponds Theater
• 1955 Matinee Theater — "Elisha and the Long Knives"
• 1955 Matinee Theatre — Fiddlin' Man, "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg", "The Milwaukee Rocket"
• 1956 Climax!... aka Climax Mystery Theater—"The Fog"
• 1956 The Alcoa Hour — "Long After Summer"
• 1957 The O. Henry Playhouse — "The Gentle Grafter"
• 1959 The DuPont Show of the Month. I, Don Quixote (TV Episode)
• 1960 The Citadel (adaptation). Armstrong Circle Theatre — "Engineer of Death: The Eichmann Story"
• 1961 The Power and the Glory (adaptation)
• 1962 G.E. True — "Circle of Death "
• 1963 The Richard Boone Show (NBC) — "Stranger". At night, on a coastal road, a boy is nearly hit by a car. The car's passengers, stopping to see if the boy is all right, are disturbed by his strange behavior. See Boy On Blacktop Road above.
• 1967 Long After Summer aka Boy Meets Girl
• Perchance to Dream
• Aboard the Flying Swan

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Book

• 2003 The Impossible Musical: The "Man of la Mancha" Story

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Activities

• Founding Member and Trustee of The Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center.
• Founded and Artistic Director of the Midwest Playwrights Laboratory, which encompasses twelve states in its program and awards fellowships and production to ten playwrights yearly.

A fellow in the broadest sense is someone who is an equal or a comrade. ... A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is someone who writes dramatic literature or drama. ...

Awards

"As to awards, I have received the usual quota of Emmys, Tonys, Ellys and Robbys and, for all I know, Kaspars and Hausers. I’m unsure of the number because I don’t attend awards ceremonies and so receive the knick-knacks by mail if at all. Ah, yes, one exception: when the University of Wisconsin offered an Honorary Doctorate, I did appear in cap and gown to address the audience in the football stadium at Madison, because a scant quarter-mile from where I was being Doctored, I had hopped my first freight at the age of 12. Irony should not be wasted." An award is something given to a person or group of people to recognize excellence in a certain field. ... An Emmy Award. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... ³ Kaspar Hauser Kaspar Hauser / Casparus Hauser (April 30?, 1812–December 17, 1833) was a mysterious foundling in 19th century Germany with ties to the royal house of Baden. ...

Emmy award An Emmy Award. ...

• 1961 Outstanding Writing Achievement In Drama: Du Pont of the Month CBS

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• 1966 Musical: Winner—Man of La Mancha. Book by Dale Wasserman, music by Mitch Leigh, lyrics by Joe Darion. Produced by Albert W. Seldon and Hal James

Three honorary degrees, including: 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... Mitch Leigh (born January 30, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York) is a Jewish-American writer of musical theatre and theatrical producer best known for the show Man Of La Mancha. ...

• 1980 Univeristy of Wisconsin — Madison, L.H.D.

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Quotes

The Duke: Why are you poets so fascinated with madmen?

Cervantes: I suppose . . . We have much in common.

Duke: You both turn your backs on life.

Cervantes: We both select from life what pleases us.

— Man of La Mancha

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. ...

Reference

The Impossible Musical, by Dale Wasserman

External links

• Dale Wasserman Official site
• Hatching "The Cuckoo’s Nest" by Dale Wasserman
• Don Quixote as Theatre by Dale Wasserman, The Cervantes Society of America
• An Interview with Dale Wasserman (pdf) on 23 May 1997. © 2001, The Cervantes Society of America
• The Playwright, the Lyricist, and the Songwriter
• The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center
• Rubicon Theatre Company
• American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards
• Emmy Awards Hosted by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
• Emmy Online Official site with information on national awards, the Academy, Academy chapters and job bank