When you have a dream to right the world's wrongs, to find and save your dream - you pull yourself out of bed and do it... even if you have to fight a few windmills to do so.
In this episode, John talks about the 1956 hit "Man of La Mancha" - touching on the beloved trope of the "show within a show", how the dense writing of Cervantes can translate to the popular medium of the Broadway musical, and the role of the audience in imagining the story.
And the Spanish Inquisition - which no one ever expects.
Music by Mitch Leigh
Book by Dale Wasserman
Lyrics by Joe Darion
Intro and outro music ("BeBop 25") provided under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by Jason Shaw on Audionautix.com
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