(LAMBERTVILLE, NJ) -- Music Mountain Theatre is presenting Man of La Mancha weekends from August 8-24, 2025. One of the world's most popular musicals, it was inspired by Miguel de Cervantes' 17th-century masterwork Don Quixote and set during the Spanish Inquisition. Photographer John Posada was on hand to take photos.
The original 1965 production won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical. Cervantes is in prison awaiting trial during the Spanish Inquisition. He and his fellow prisoners perform a play-within-a-play, telling the story of the elderly Alonso Quijana, who renames himself “Don Quixote” and goes on a quest to right all wrongs in the world.
Man of La Mancha, which features a book by Dale Wasserman, music by Mitch Leigh and lyrics by Joe Darion, is adapted from Wasserman’s 1959 teleplay I, Don Quixote. This in turn was inspired by Miguel de Cervantes and his 17th-century classic, Don Quixote. The rousing, Spanish-inflected score includes the classic numbers “The Impossible Dream,” “I, Don Quixote,” “Dulcinea,” “I Really Like Him” and “Little Bird.”
The cast includes David Whiteman, Jennifer Fischer, Michael Schiumo, Cathy Alaimo, John Dwyer, Michael Gearty, Ariel Gruhin, Joan Hoffman, Jason Kohn, Vince Moffa, Kyle Stephen, Tristan Takacs, Karen Cameron, Sean McReynolds, Mary Murdock, Cara Pergament, Peter F. Piccini, Phillip Schneller, Michael Shepherd, Sharon Warner, and Samantha Whiteman.
Performances take place Friday & Saturday at 8:00pm; Saturday & Sunday at 3:00pm. Tickets are available for purchase online. Music Mountain Theatre is located at 1483 NJ 179 in Lambertville, New Jersey. Content warning: Man of La Mancha contains theatrical haze/fog, mature themes, references to bodily harm, and scenes of emotional and physical intensity. Recommended for ages 13+.
The show made its world premiere in 1965 at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut, and later that year made its New York premiere at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre. Man of La Mancha won five Tony Awards in 1966, garnering the trophies for Best Musical, Best Composer and Lyricist, Best Actor in a Musical for Richard Kiley, Best Scenic Design for Howard Bay and Best Direction of a Musical for Albert Marre.
Man of La Mancha has gone on to be performed around the world, with productions in Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Irish, Japanese, Korean, Icelandic, Gujarati, Uzbek, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Serbian, Slovenian, Swahili, Finnish, Ukrainian and nine different Spanish dialects of the Spanish language. Cast recordings are available in multiple languages.
Here are more photos from the production.
John Posada is a New Jersey based photographer specializing in photographing live theatre and music performances. For more than 15 years, John has photographed live events where he mastered the techniques of timing and capturing fast moving action under challenging lighting conditions. Currently, John has spent the last 3 years concentrating on photographing almost 200 theatre productions for over 70 different theatres. Click here for John's website.
